cowsay --help gives output that hints at incompatible perl usage

Bug #1403629 reported by Daniel Kessel
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #249097: cowsay --help fails. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Running 'cowsay --help' on vivid gives this, which looks like it is broken:

usr/games/cowsay version [unknown] calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version 1.10 [paranoid]),
running under Perl version 5.20.1.

Usage: cowsay [-OPTIONS [-MORE_OPTIONS]] [--] [PROGRAM_ARG1 ...]

The following single-character options are accepted:
        With arguments: -e -f -T -W
        Boolean (without arguments): -b -d -g -h -l -L -n -N -p -s -t -w -y

Options may be merged together. -- stops processing of options.
Space is not required between options and their arguments.
  [Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia.
   See 'perldoc Getopt::Std' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION.]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: cowsay 3.03+dfsg1-10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.15-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Dec 17 20:45:20 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-16 (276 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140316)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: cowsay
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2014-11-20 (26 days ago)

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