diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 047ef07746a8..f3a67c890918 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -13956,7 +13956,8 @@ let
       sha256 = "1qss4q5df3nsydsbggb7gg50bn0kdxq5wn8riqm9zwkiq6a4bifg";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.docbook_xsl pkgs.docbook_xsl_ns ModuleBuild ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ TextWrapI18N LocaleGettext TermReadKey SGMLSpm UnicodeLineBreak PodParser YAMLTiny ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ TextWrapI18N LocaleGettext SGMLSpm UnicodeLineBreak PodParser YAMLTiny ];
+    # TermReadKey was removed from propagatedBuildInputs to unfreeze the build
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.gettext pkgs.libxslt pkgs.glibcLocales pkgs.docbook_xml_dtd_412 pkgs.docbook_sgml_dtd_41 pkgs.texlive.combined.scheme-basic pkgs.opensp ];
     LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8";
     SGML_CATALOG_FILES = "${pkgs.docbook_xml_dtd_412}/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml";