Bug#786575: closed by Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> (Bug#786575: fixed in perl 5.22.0~rc2-1)

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:16:22AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2015, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> 
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > which was filed against the libperl5.20 package:
> > 
> > #786575: libperl5.20 is not Multi-Arch compatible
> > 
> > It has been closed by Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>.
> 
> Unfortunately libperl5.22 is only available in Debian experimental. This 
> means Debian Testing and Debian Unstable have been broken for the past 
> 3.5 months. Is there a way to either get libperl5.22 out of experimental 
> or to backport the fix to libperl5.20?

Hello,

Yes, work is underway to transition perl 5.22 to unstable; see
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796345>. It's
expected to transition quite soon now, so at this point the cost of
backporting these fixes to perl 5.20 would far outweigh the benefits.

Cheers,
Dominic.