The two go part and parcel together - can't have one without the other. Agriffis tested then marked perl-5.8.2-r1 as stable, but I think he forgot to mark libperl-5.8.2 as stable as well (libperl-5.8.2 is a subpiece of perl, required for our builds).
I'm an idiot and you are awesome, conscientous, devs