diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 2da416a..1fcb254 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Revision history for DBIx-Class-Migration.
 
+        - handle "package NAME VERSION" - thanks @kivilahtio for report
+
 0.062   
         - update DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler dep to 0.002222 - thanks @KES777 for report
         - POD improvements - thanks @manwar
diff --git a/lib/DBIx/Class/Migration.pm b/lib/DBIx/Class/Migration.pm
index 2cde6bb..868ce46 100644
--- a/lib/DBIx/Class/Migration.pm
+++ b/lib/DBIx/Class/Migration.pm
@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ sub dbic_dh {
   _log_die "A \$VERSION needs to be specified in your schema class ${\$self->_infer_schema_class}"
   unless $self->schema->schema_version;
 
-
   my $dh = $self->deployment_handler_class->new({
     schema => $self->schema,
     %dbic_dh_args, @args,
@@ -212,7 +211,9 @@ sub upgrade { shift->dbic_dh->upgrade }
 sub downgrade {
   my ($self, %args) = @_;
   unless($self->dbic_dh_args->{to_version}) {
-    my $to_version = $self->dbic_dh->schema_version - 1;
+    my $to_version = $self->dbic_dh->schema_version;
+    $to_version = $to_version->numify if ref $to_version; # version object
+    $to_version -= 1;
     warn "No to_version is specified, downgrading to version $to_version";
     $args{to_version} = $to_version;
   }
@@ -287,7 +288,11 @@ sub _create_all_fixture_set {
   _create_file_at_path($path, $conf);
 }
 
-sub _has_previous_version { $_[0] ? $_[0]-1 : 0 }
+sub _has_previous_version {
+  return 0 if !$_[0];
+  return $_[0]->numify - 1 if ref $_[0]; # version object
+  $_[0]-1
+}
 
 sub _only_from_when_not_to {
   my ($from_dir, $to_dir) = @_;
diff --git a/t/lib/Local/v2/Schema.pm b/t/lib/Local/v2/Schema.pm
index 4163683..58a9690 100644
--- a/t/lib/Local/v2/Schema.pm
+++ b/t/lib/Local/v2/Schema.pm
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-package Local::v2::Schema;
+package Local::v2::Schema 2;
 use base 'DBIx::Class::Schema';
 
-our $VERSION = 2;
-
 __PACKAGE__->load_namespaces;
 
 1;