Bug#760935: perl: Crashing bug on trivial programs

[Emmanuel Surleau]

Package: perl
Version: 5.20.0-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I have encountered a critical issue with both 5.20.0-6 and 5.20.1~rc2-1 versions
of perl.

How to reproduce:

    09/09 10:29 ~/projects/integration_oed % perl -e 'use File::Find;'
    zsh: segmentation fault  perl -e 'use File::Find;'

As git-svn crashes systematically with an error code 139, git add -p is out of
commission and apt-file crashes as well, I suspect this issue affects a lot more
packages (which is also why I set the priority to 'grave').

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.6-7
ii  libc6         2.19-10
ii  libdb5.3      5.3.28-6
ii  libgdbm3      1.8.3-13
ii  perl-base     5.20.0-6
ii  perl-modules  5.20.0-6
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase  5.2
ii  rename   0.20-3

Versions of packages perl suggests:
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  1.24-2+b1
ii  make                       4.0-8
pn  perl-doc                   <none>

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