remove now-redundant VERSION check

diff --git a/tests/rm/fail-eperm b/tests/rm/fail-eperm
index 6e6feb6417f5b3746c293519a4cfd5658ec64ec0..cb0d6fc2504bb572ae56a428383c63271e7e02f5 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/rm/fail-eperm
+++ b/tests/rm/fail-eperm
@@ -42,10 +42,6 @@ use strict;
 
 (my $ME = $ENV{ARGV_0}) =~ s|.*/||;
 
-my $verbose = $ENV{VERBOSE} && $ENV{VERBOSE} eq 'yes';
-$verbose
-  and system qw (rm --version);
-
 # Ensure that the diagnostics are in English.
 $ENV{LC_ALL} = 'C';