ldirectord is missing libsocket6-perl dependency

Binary package hint: heartbeat

On a fresh install of ldirectord on Karmic ldirectord fails to startup due to a missing Perl dependency libsocket6-perl, see transcript below for details:

root@lvs0:~# apt-get install ldirectord
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ipvsadm libauthen-radius-perl libconvert-asn1-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl
  libdbi-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl
  libmail-pop3client-perl libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libnet-imap-simple-perl libnet-imap-simple-ssl-perl libnet-ip-perl
  libnet-ldap-perl libnet-libidn-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libplrpc-perl
Suggested packages:
  heartbeat keepalived dbishell libio-socket-inet6-perl libauthen-sasl-perl
  libxml-sax-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed
  ipvsadm ldirectord libauthen-radius-perl libconvert-asn1-perl
  libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdbi-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl
  libio-socket-ssl-perl libmail-pop3client-perl libnet-daemon-perl
  libnet-dns-perl libnet-imap-simple-perl libnet-imap-simple-ssl-perl
  libnet-ip-perl libnet-ldap-perl libnet-libidn-perl libnet-ssleay-perl
  libplrpc-perl
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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root@lvs0:~# /etc/init.d/ldirectord status
Can't locate Socket6.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/ldirectord line 815.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/ldirectord line 815.
root@lvs0:~# apt-get install libsocket6-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  libsocket6-perl
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 131kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main libsocket6-perl 0.20-1build1 [27.9kB]
Fetched 27.9kB in 0s (317kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libsocket6-perl.
(Reading database ... 46555 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libsocket6-perl (from .../libsocket6-perl_0.20-1build1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up libsocket6-perl (0.20-1build1) ...

root@lvs0:~# /etc/init.d/ldirectord status
Config file ldirectord.cf not found
root@lvs0:~#