dpkg error for login package during aptitude upgrade

[Kevinality]

Ubuntu 8.10
Linux jbaker-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Apt-get or aptitude upgrade crashes with error:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.1.1-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb: files list file for package `libtimedate-perl' is missing final newline

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en_1%3a8.10+20081107_all.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `libtimedate-perl' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en_1%3a8.10+20081107_all.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Please attach the contents of /var/log/apt to this bug report.

Thanks in advance

[Kevinality (kevinality)]

This is the latest log from /var/log/apt. Thank you.