Requesting backports (Perl)?

Is it possible to request non-security backports?

This fix is in recent Perl interpreters:

Basically, if a Perl module relies on a system library which creates and terminates threads, then Perl segfaults.

For me, this means that anything which uses DBD::Oracle crashes on a regular basis.

Security policies make it ridiculously complex to run software which is not from an official distro, making it very hard to actually fix this bug.

Since this is a fundamental functional flaw with the shipped Perl binary, what would be the policy about backporting it?

The best place to ask this would be in the ALESCo room on our chat.almalinux.org, because then all members of ALESCo could provide their input.

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