Comment 7 for bug 251155

I've just incurred this penalty trying to build my modified hal package that supports automatic LUKS key-file use for gnome-mount.

I saw the new hal release in hardy-proposed so pulled in its source, added my patch and updated the version. Uploaded it to the PPA and the i386/amd64 builds failed due to a missing dependency on the latest libsmbios-dev (also updated in hardy-proposed).

It would be *very* useful to be able to allow -proposed for specific package builds since it allows us to test our own modifications against proposed releases and if there are problems, report them before the -proposed package migrates to -updates.

I ended up downloading the libsmbios-dev source from -proposed:

$ apt-get source libsmbiosp-dev -t hardy-proposed

Bumped the version from "0.13.10-1ubuntu1.1" to "0.13.10-1ubuntu1.2~ppa1h" and uploaded the package to my PPA.

Lucky I didn't need to alter the 'depends' in the hal package's debian/control since the binaries are unchanged (hal specifies a depend on "libsmbios-dev(>= 0.13.10-1ubuntu1.1) [i386 amd64]".