Seems the ongoing race for Gtk2 removal has reached the point where the Perl bindings for the library are not desired anymore in Debian. Other distributions are probably reaching this point soon… This RFE is for tracking this migration, if possible. Of course, if anybody has a secret patch to make this happen, now it's the time to show it and claim your glory! Nobody yet?! Well, well, I had to try ;-)
Fixed in 1.3.0 release.