Debian now ships Date::Manip 6.x which changes the interface. Turn on 5.x mode.

diff --git a/bin/mythtv-status b/bin/mythtv-status
index 26901daabe520e55234ff6c29d446e87c4c85a1d..d68c4f60dfac8f25c86578a1afc108501f2d5a01 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/mythtv-status
+++ b/bin/mythtv-status
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@
 
 # Display the current status of a MythTV system.
 
+# While I would love to enable the 6.xx interface for Date::Manip we may
+# still need to run on platforms that only have version 5.x.  So we'll
+# turn on backwards compatible mode for now.
+BEGIN {
+       $Date::Manip::Backend = 'DM5';
+}
+
 use LWP::Simple;
 use XML::LibXML;
 use Date::Manip;