bug#80353: tests/misc/read-errors.sh FAILs with dash as /bin/sh

Collin Funk <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:56:16 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
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Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes:

> Good point, but in my previous quick look it seemed to be always available.
> I had already checked FreeBSD, Solaris, Debian.
> On Fedora perl-libs is a direct depedency of perl, so should always be installed.
> I think it should be fine to depend on this perl base lib unconditionally.

Ah, I think you are right. The 'perl' package depends on it:

    $ dnf repoquery --whatrequires perl-Text-ParseWords | grep '^perl-4'
    Updating and loading repositories:
    Repositories loaded.
    perl-4:5.42.0-520.fc43.x86_64

Thanks for checking.

Collin