diff --git a/converters/p5-DateManip/Makefile b/converters/p5-DateManip/Makefile
index 804432674de..ccea4293fe5 100644
--- a/converters/p5-DateManip/Makefile
+++ b/converters/p5-DateManip/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 2004/05/10 19:41:33 sturm Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.11 2006/07/13 11:52:50 steven Exp $
 
 COMMENT=	"manipulate dates in perl"
-DISTNAME=	DateManip-5.42a
+DISTNAME=	DateManip-5.44
 PKGNAME=	p5-${DISTNAME}
 CATEGORIES=	converters perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN:=Date/}
@@ -18,4 +18,6 @@ PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP=	Yes
 
 CONFIGURE_STYLE= perl
 
+PKG_ARCH=	*
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/converters/p5-DateManip/distinfo b/converters/p5-DateManip/distinfo
index ebea26a8403..8c9b4c93b3e 100644
--- a/converters/p5-DateManip/distinfo
+++ b/converters/p5-DateManip/distinfo
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-MD5 (DateManip-5.42a.tar.gz) = 648386bbf46d021ae283811f75b07bdf
-RMD160 (DateManip-5.42a.tar.gz) = c6456f8b3b828cb368de9657c637f45cac22959c
-SHA1 (DateManip-5.42a.tar.gz) = d0033f0164e495769fcda0c9054054ecba98eb25
-SIZE (DateManip-5.42a.tar.gz) = 136302
+MD5 (DateManip-5.44.tar.gz) = ebb1e17639fc4260b72690c1de2f5fdc
+RMD160 (DateManip-5.44.tar.gz) = d06ca1179a90699a0d19872228258ef2bb81a010
+SHA1 (DateManip-5.44.tar.gz) = 18938e48e2c2ba43f8c706acf1c2720d9dc98a83
+SIZE (DateManip-5.44.tar.gz) = 141596
diff --git a/converters/p5-DateManip/patches/patch-Manip_pm b/converters/p5-DateManip/patches/patch-Manip_pm
deleted file mode 100644
index 2662bac574c..00000000000
--- a/converters/p5-DateManip/patches/patch-Manip_pm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-$OpenBSD$
---- Manip.pm.orig	2004-05-01 19:08:05.000000000 +0200
-+++ Manip.pm	2004-05-01 19:09:16.000000000 +0200
-@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ $OS="VMS"      if (defined $^O and
-                    $^O =~ /VMS/i);
- 
- # Determine if we're doing taint checking
--$Date::Manip::NoTaint = eval { local $^W; unlink "$^X$^T"; 1 };
-+$Date::Manip::NoTaint = eval { local $^W; unlink "/tmp/$^X$^T"; 1 };
- 
- ###########################################################################
- # CUSTOMIZATION