libdate-manip-perl has 6.05, a broken version

Bug #828173 reported by Jonathan
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Bug Description

I recently updated my sever to 10.04.3, and got the latest libdate-manip-perl, version 6.05

according to the package creator on Perl:

"""It is true that when I went to 6.xx, I tighted up the parsing a lot,
but the main thing I got rid of was stuff that really wasn't useful.
I DID unintentionally break support for '4pm', but this was added back
in in 6.06 (and we're up to 6.24 now, so that was actually quite a
while ago).

Try upgrading to the most recent version, and I suspect you'll get
what you want. If not, feel free to email me again.
"""

In effect parsing time from strings is broken in 6.05, and restored in 6.06.

There is no backport of libdate-manip-perl in lucid-backports

[J]~ >lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04

[J]~ >apt-cache policy libdate-manip-perl
libdate-manip-perl:
  Installed: 6.05-1
  Candidate: 6.05-1
  Version table:
 *** 6.05-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

expected in Perl code to have &ParseDateString(4pm Monday) work

what did happen is
&ParseDateString (4pm Monday) failed to parse

Thank you!

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