Lost Data::Dumper-5.8 compatibility

I recently released a new dev version of Data::Dumper. That version lost 
5.8.9 compatibility. Given the rather low level of D::D in the 
toolchain, I'd really rather keep it working on 5.8.1 and up (or so) for 
some time. Does somebody have an idea what could have caused this?

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/b43a679c-2dd9-11e1-9d6f-f6dbfa7543f5

Are we just testing for the non-existence of a bug that was fixed in 
core outside of Data::Dumper? Should we only run the test if perl is 
5.10 or better? Is the test bogus? Is it a real DD code change that 
breaks stuff on 5.8?

Cheers,
Steffen

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