On Feb 27, 2015 1:03 PM, "Niko Tyni" <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > > 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.
Well, in wheezy and squeeze I could use "perl -d" to debug this, but now "perl -dt" is required and it doesn't work. The end result being I can no longer debug threaded code.