In #28204 we deprecated implicit conversion of durations to a
numeric which represented the number of seconds in the duration
because of unwanted side effects with calculations on durations
and dates. This unfortunately had the side effect of forcing a
explicit cast when configuring third-party libraries like
expiration in Redis, e.g:

    redis.expire("foo", 5.minutes)

To work around this we've removed the deprecation and added a
private class that wraps the numeric and can perform calculation
involving durations and ensure that they remain a duration
irrespective of the order of operations.