0.9.22 is out I didn't check (yet) but at least Arch Linux is building it without HAL support http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pmount/ So either it's dropped upstream, which would make sense as it's Debian maintained and they are in process of getting rid of HAL. Or then the optional dep was dropped. Either way, when bumping, it needs to be looked at.
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