Ubuntu 18.04 and "Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa" when using IPv6

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:13 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Would someone have a look at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libhttp-daemon-perl/+bug/1904907
> when time is available.
>
> The issue causes self tests failures in a lot of packages, including
> Wget and Wget2. When 'make check' fails it munges up the install
> process. We don't have authority to install a package that fails its
> self tests.

Wget 1.21 was released on DEC 31, 2020. It is still failing its self tests.

Is there any hope of getting Perl fixed before Ubuntu 18 goes end-of-life?

Jeff