diff --git a/srcpkgs/rrdtool/template b/srcpkgs/rrdtool/template
index d2b38f2300d..f8edb752f26 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rrdtool/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rrdtool/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'rrdtool'
 pkgname=rrdtool
 version=1.7.2
-revision=15
+revision=16
 build_style=gnu-configure
 # configure checks sys.version[:3] for Python versioning, so 3.10 becomes 3.1;
 # until this is fixed upstream, manually define am_cv_python_version to circumvent
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ python3-rrdtool_package() {
 
 perl-rrdtool_package() {
 	short_desc+=" - perl bindings"
-	shlib_requires="libperl.so.5.36"
+	shlib_requires="libperl.so.5.38"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/lib/perl5
 		vmove usr/share/perl5