I wrote:
> Having said that ... it does not appear to me that the Debian perl
> maintainer foresaw all the consequences of this change, so I went
> ahead and filed some push-back at
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798626
> I'll wait to see the reply before changing anything.
The maintainer says he'll revert the change, so I suppose the
buildfarm will go back to normal without extra effort on our part.
regards, tom lane