Steps To Reproduce

On macOS one gets (from Homebrew) GNU patch version 2.8.
It does not get recognised, as the spkg-configure needs 3 numeric field, not 2.

e.g.

$ patch --version | sed -n -e 's/GNU patch *\([[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*\)/\1/p'
2.7.6.211-86ac
$
$ echo "GNU patch 2.8"| sed -n -e 's/GNU patch *\([[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*\)/\1/p' # no output!
$
$ echo "GNU patch 2.8.42 "| sed -n -e 's/GNU patch *\([[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*\)/\1/p'
2.8.42 

Expected Behavior

2.8 should work

Actual Behavior

it doesn't

Additional Information

https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/PW1M_C5sD9E/m/CbhWsDlnCgAJ as reported by @jhpalmieri

Environment

• OS: macOS
• Sage Version: 10.0+

Checklist

• I have searched the existing issues for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
• I have read the documentation and troubleshoot guide