I wrote:
> So I'm content to fix this by removing the check for useshrplib.
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.
regards, tom lane