Bug#779357: perl: Debugger hangs when threads are involved

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:40:33AM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.20.1-5
> Severity: important
> 
> It's no longer possible to use the debugger to debug threaded Perl
> programs.  Perl gets stuck and the debugger has to be hard-killed.  The
> attached script is a simple script starts a thread and joins it.  I've
> also attached strace output and below is the backtrace from debugperl.

Are you sure about the 'no longer' part? I see this on squeeze and
wheezy too.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org