It's not the build-depends, it's the *Depends*:

(oneiric-amd64)root@anubis:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up gnome-gmail (1.8.1-1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-gmail", line 28, in <module>
    import gconf
ImportError: No module named gconf
dpkg: error processing gnome-gmail (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-gmail
(oneiric-amd64)root@anubis:~# apt-get install python-gconf
[...]
Selecting previously deselected package python-gconf.
(Reading database ... 52559 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-gconf (from .../python-gconf_2.28.1-3_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up gnome-gmail (1.8.1-1) ...
Setting up python-gconf (2.28.1-3) ...
(oneiric-amd64)root@anubis:~# 

This got fixed in the debian package that is in precise, from the
changelog:

gnome-gmail (1.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * Added Dependencies needed by GNOME 3 (python-glade2 and python-gconf)


** Also affects: gnome-gmail (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: gnome-gmail (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

** Changed in: gnome-gmail (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: gnome-gmail (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Summary changed:

- Missing pre-depends for python-gconf
+ Missing Depends on python-gconf

** Description changed:

- Configure fails from missing gconf module.  Install it first and then
- the install works just fine.
+ The package configure fails from missing gconf module.  Install it first
+ and then the install works just fine.
  
- ProblemType: Bug
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
- Package: gnome-gmail 1.8.1-1
- ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic-pae 3.0.9
- Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic-pae i686
- NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
- ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
- Architecture: i386
- Date: Sun Dec 18 12:27:53 2011
- InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
- PackageArchitecture: all
- ProcEnviron:
-  PATH=(custom, user)
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
- SourcePackage: gnome-gmail
- UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
+ Failure:
+ Setting up gnome-gmail (1.8.1-1) ...
+ Traceback (most recent call last):
+   File "/usr/bin/gnome-gmail", line 28, in <module>
+     import gconf
+ ImportError: No module named gconf
+ dpkg: error processing gnome-gmail (--configure):
+  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
+ Errors were encountered while processing:
+  gnome-gmail

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