user@machine:/home/ian/Dev/Ume/ports/src# apt-get source lifereathis downloads the source

liferea-1.4.2 
liferea_1.4.2.orig.tar.gz
liferea_1.4.2-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
liferea_1.4.2-0ubuntu1.dsc

this gives some ./autoconf errors like:

No package 'libxslt' found 
No package 'sqlite3' found
No package 'libglade-2.0' found

which are the applications dependencies, so install the packages needed if you have not already done so: aptitude install libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml2-dev libxml-perl libxslt1-dev libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libhildondesktop-dev xulrunner

this passed autoconf but running make gave an error of:

gtkhtml2.c: In function 'gtkhtml2_launch_url': 
gtkhtml2.c:458: error: too many arguments to function 'update_request_new'
gtkhtml2.c:458: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
gtkhtml2.c:459: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
gtkhtml2.c:460: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
gtkhtml2.c:461: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
gtkhtml2.c:462: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
gtkhtml2.c:463: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
gtkhtml2.c:465: error: too few arguments to function 'update_execute_request'
make[4]: *** [liblihtmlg_la-gtkhtml2.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ian/Desktop/liferea-1.4.2/src/gtkhtml2'

It seems to be hitting by this bug.

So downloaded the latest bugfix stable release 1.4.2b and this compiled successfully and also ran make ok so now it is time to 'Hildonize' it.