diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/feature-freeze-teams.pl b/maintainers/scripts/feature-freeze-teams.pl
index eb37150befe3..1c1a5c00907d 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/feature-freeze-teams.pl
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/feature-freeze-teams.pl
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ sub github_team_members {
             push @ret, $_->{'login'};
         }
     } else {
-        print {*STDERR} "!! Requesting members of GitHub Team '$team_name' failed: $response->status_line";
+        print {*STDERR} "!! Requesting members of GitHub Team '$team_name' failed: " . $response->status_line;
     }
 
     return \@ret;