diff --git a/SPECS/openqa.spec b/SPECS/openqa.spec
index ffd8249..d239fa9 100644
--- a/SPECS/openqa.spec
+++ b/SPECS/openqa.spec
@@ -55,16 +55,18 @@
 # The following line is generated from dependencies.yaml (upstream)
 %define common_requires chrony perl-interpreter >= 5.20.0 perl(Carp::Always) >= 0.14.02 perl(Config::IniFiles) perl(Cpanel::JSON::XS) >= 4.09 perl(Cwd) perl(Data::Dump) perl(Data::Dumper) perl(Digest::MD5) perl(Feature::Compat::Try) perl(Filesys::Df) perl(Getopt::Long) perl(HTTP::Status) perl(Minion) >= 10.25 perl(Mojolicious) >= 9.34 perl(Regexp::Common) perl(Storable) perl(Text::Glob) perl(Time::Moment)
 # Diff from SUSE: we package bsdcat and bsdtar separately
+# AlmaLinux/EL9: only bsdtar is packaged (no /usr/bin/bsdcat on EL9), so
+# bsdcat is dropped -- matching the old 4.6 packaging.
 # runtime requirements for the main package that are not required by other sub-packages
 # The following line is generated from dependencies.yaml (upstream)
-%define main_requires %assetpack_requires bsdcat bsdtar git-core hostname openssh-clients perl(BSD::Resource) perl(Carp) perl(CommonMark) perl(DBD::Pg) >= 3.7.4 perl(DBI) >= 1.632 perl(DBIx::Class) >= 0.082801 perl(DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler) perl(DBIx::Class::DynamicDefault) perl(DBIx::Class::OptimisticLocking) perl(DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator) perl(DBIx::Class::Schema::Config) perl(DBIx::Class::Storage::Statistics) perl(Date::Format) perl(DateTime) perl(DateTime::Duration) perl(DateTime::Format::Pg) perl(Exporter) perl(Fcntl) perl(File::Basename) perl(File::Copy) perl(File::Copy::Recursive) perl(File::Path) perl(File::Spec) perl(FindBin) perl(Getopt::Long::Descriptive) perl(IO::Handle) perl(IPC::Run) perl(JSON::Validator) perl(LWP::UserAgent) perl(Module::Load::Conditional) perl(Module::Pluggable) perl(Mojo::Base) perl(Mojo::ByteStream) perl(Mojo::IOLoop) perl(Mojo::JSON) perl(Mojo::Pg) perl(Mojo::RabbitMQ::Client) >= 0.2 perl(Mojo::URL) perl(Mojo::Util) perl(Mojolicious::Commands) perl(Mojolicious::Plugin) perl(Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2) perl(Mojolicious::Static) perl(Net::OpenID::Consumer) perl(POSIX) perl(Pod::POM) perl(SQL::Translator) perl(Scalar::Util) perl(Sort::Versions) perl(Text::Diff) perl(Time::HiRes) perl(Time::ParseDate) perl(Time::Piece) perl(Time::Seconds) perl(URI::Escape) perl(YAML::PP) >= 0.026 perl(YAML::XS) perl(aliased) perl(base) perl(constant) perl(diagnostics) perl(strict) perl(warnings)
+%define main_requires %assetpack_requires bsdtar git-core hostname openssh-clients perl(BSD::Resource) perl(Carp) perl(CommonMark) perl(DBD::Pg) >= 3.7.4 perl(DBI) >= 1.632 perl(DBIx::Class) >= 0.082801 perl(DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler) perl(DBIx::Class::DynamicDefault) perl(DBIx::Class::OptimisticLocking) perl(DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator) perl(DBIx::Class::Schema::Config) perl(DBIx::Class::Storage::Statistics) perl(Date::Format) perl(DateTime) perl(DateTime::Duration) perl(DateTime::Format::Pg) perl(Exporter) perl(Fcntl) perl(File::Basename) perl(File::Copy) perl(File::Copy::Recursive) perl(File::Path) perl(File::Spec) perl(FindBin) perl(Getopt::Long::Descriptive) perl(IO::Handle) perl(IPC::Run) perl(JSON::Validator) perl(LWP::UserAgent) perl(Module::Load::Conditional) perl(Module::Pluggable) perl(Mojo::Base) perl(Mojo::ByteStream) perl(Mojo::IOLoop) perl(Mojo::JSON) perl(Mojo::Pg) perl(Mojo::RabbitMQ::Client) >= 0.2 perl(Mojo::URL) perl(Mojo::Util) perl(Mojolicious::Commands) perl(Mojolicious::Plugin) perl(Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2) perl(Mojolicious::Static) perl(Net::OpenID::Consumer) perl(POSIX) perl(Pod::POM) perl(SQL::Translator) perl(Scalar::Util) perl(Sort::Versions) perl(Text::Diff) perl(Time::HiRes) perl(Time::ParseDate) perl(Time::Piece) perl(Time::Seconds) perl(URI::Escape) perl(YAML::PP) >= 0.026 perl(YAML::XS) perl(aliased) perl(base) perl(constant) perl(diagnostics) perl(strict) perl(warnings)
 # The following line is generated from dependencies.yaml (upstream)
 %define client_requires curl git-core jq perl(Getopt::Long::Descriptive) perl(IO::Socket::SSL) >= 2.009 perl(IPC::Run) perl(JSON::Validator) perl(LWP::Protocol::https) perl(LWP::UserAgent) perl(Test::More) perl(YAML::PP) >= 0.020 perl(YAML::XS)
 # Diff from SUSE 1: case (they have openQA-client, we have openqa-client)
 # Diff from SUSE 2: we have 'sqlite' not 'sqlite3'
 # Diff from SUSE 3: we package bsdcat and bsdtar separately
 # The following line is generated from dependencies.yaml (upstream)
-%define worker_requires bsdcat bsdtar openqa-client optipng os-autoinst perl(Capture::Tiny) perl(File::Map) perl(Minion::Backend::SQLite) >= 5.0.7 perl(Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteProcess) >= 0.26 perl(Mojo::SQLite) psmisc sqlite >= 3.24.0
+%define worker_requires bsdtar openqa-client optipng os-autoinst perl(Capture::Tiny) perl(File::Map) perl(Minion::Backend::SQLite) >= 5.0.7 perl(Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteProcess) >= 0.26 perl(Mojo::SQLite) psmisc sqlite >= 3.24.0
 # Diff from SUSE: we don't have perl(MCP) packaged currently
 # The following line is generated from dependencies.yaml (upstream)
 %define mcp_requires %{nil}
@@ -93,8 +95,10 @@
 # SUSE has python3-gitlint and python3-ruff but we just have gitlint and ruff
 # shfmt is omitted as our package for it was orphaned and retired
 # Perl::Critic doesn't have a third version component on Fedora
+# AlmaLinux/EL9: gitlint, ruff and perl(Code::TidyAll) are not packaged for
+# EL9, so they are dropped from the style-check (author-test) requirements.
 # The following line is generated from dependencies.yaml (upstream)
-%define style_check_requires ShellCheck perl(Code::TidyAll) perl(Perl::Critic) >= 1.156 perl(Pod::Markdown) perl(Test::Perl::Critic) gitlint ruff yamllint
+%define style_check_requires ShellCheck perl(Perl::Critic) >= 1.156 perl(Pod::Markdown) perl(Test::Perl::Critic) yamllint
 # diff from SUSE: perl(Devel::Cover::Report::Codecovbash) dropped because
 # it's not in Fedora (this means you can't run 'make coverage-codecov')
 # The following line is generated from dependencies.yaml (upstream)