Package flashplugin-installer should depend on "hal" so it can run DRMed content

Bug #1104171 reported by Aldo Nogueira
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1048446: Flash requires hal for video DRM. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

- I rented a movie from Google Play and couln't play it on my Ubuntu machine.
- I talked to Google's support and they answered me with this link:
  http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/flash-player-11-problems-playing.html
- The fix was to install the package "hal" and delete some files under ~/.adobe
- Shouldn't "hal" be a dependency or at least a suggestion?

Note that the trailer was already working before the fix. Trailers don't have DRM, I think.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.261ubuntu0.12.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 24 14:25:41 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-09 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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