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general

source: bash (main)
version: 5.3-4
maintainer: Matthias Klose (DMD)
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.4
VCS: unknown

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 5.1-2+deb11u1
oldstable: 5.2.15-2
stable: 5.2.37-2
testing: 5.3-3
unstable: 5.3-4

versioned links

5.1-2+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.2.15-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.2.37-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.3-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.3-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

bash (314 bugs: 0, 194, 120, 0)
bash-builtins (5 bugs: 0, 1, 4, 0)
bash-doc (2 bugs: 0, 1, 1, 0)
bash-static

action needed

Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In debian/watch no matching files for watch source
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/

Created: 2025-11-27 Last update: 2026-09-06 19:32

lintian reports 2 errors and 12 warnings high

Lintian reports 2 errors and 12 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-09-05 Last update: 2026-09-05 01:31

34 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 34 bugs (38 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-09-06 22:30

Multiarch hinter reports 1 issue(s) low

There are issues with the multiarch metadata for this package.

bash-doc could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign

Created: 2016-09-14 Last update: 2026-09-06 17:00

debian/patches: 33 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 33 debian patches available in version 5.3-4 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

33 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2026-09-04 21:04

Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2020-02-26 Last update: 2025-09-06 05:00

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for bash (5.3-3 to 5.3-4): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for adns/1.6.2-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for atuin/18.20.0+ds-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bats-assert/2.2.4-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bats-file/0.4.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bats-support/0.3.0-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bd/1.03-7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for ca-certificates-java/20260311: amd64: Pass, arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for capnproto/1.4.0-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for comitup/1.47.1-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dahdi-linux/1:3.4.0~dfsg-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for debian-goodies/0.88.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dia2code/1.0.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dkim-rotate/1.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for drbl/5.11.8-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for elixir-lang/1.20.1.dfsg-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for endlessh/1.1-5.1: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for firebuild/0.8.6.1-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for flexc++/2.19.00-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for flxmlrpc/0.1.4-6: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for fonts-fork-awesome/1.2.0+ds1-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gt5/1.5.0~20111220+bzr29-4: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for hippotat/1.3.3: amd64: Pass, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for icmake/13.05.01-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for im-config/1.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for imagemagick/8:7.1.2.29+dfsg2-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for leiningen-clojure/2.11.2-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libdeflate/1.25-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for librsb/1.3.0.3+dfsg-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for linuxinfo/4.2.3-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for liquidprompt/2.2.1-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for logcheck/1.4.7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for lsb-release-minimal/12.1-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for meson/1.12.0-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for metalog/20260811-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for nix/2.34.8+dfsg-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for node-playwright/1.38.0+ds-9: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for num-utils/0.5-15: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-21/21.0.12.1+1-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-25/25.0.4+7-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-26/26.0.2.1+1-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-27/27~34ea-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-28/28~13ea-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pass-otp/1.2.0-10: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pay-respects/0.8.8-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for popa3d/1.0.3-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for spin/6.5.2+dfsg-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for streamlink/8.5.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for txt2regex/0.9-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for userv/1.2.3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for vm/8.2.0b-11.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xchpst/0.8.5-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xdg-utils/1.2.1-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xgboost/3.3.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xonsh/0.22.8+dfsg-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for yabasic/1:2.91.4-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 3 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/b/bash.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
- Not considered

news

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[2026-09-04] Accepted bash 5.3-4 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2026-05-13] bash 5.3-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-05-03] Accepted bash 5.3-3 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2026-02-22] bash 5.3-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-02-13] Accepted bash 5.3-2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-09-08] bash 5.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-03] Accepted bash 5.3-1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-06-11] Accepted bash 5.3~rc2-1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-04-14] bash 5.2.37-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-04-09] Accepted bash 5.3~rc1-1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-04-09] Accepted bash 5.2.37-2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-02-26] bash 5.2.37-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-02-21] Accepted bash 5.2.37-1.1 (source) into unstable (Niels Thykier)
[2025-01-21] Accepted bash 5.3~beta1-1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2024-12-10] bash 5.2.37-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-12-05] Accepted bash 5.2.37-1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2024-08-25] bash 5.2.32-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-20] Accepted bash 5.3~alpha1-1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2024-08-20] Accepted bash 5.2.32-1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2024-06-14] bash 5.2.21-2.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-06] Accepted bash 5.2.21-2.1 (source) into unstable (Helmut Grohne)
[2023-12-01] bash 5.2.21-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-11-26] Accepted bash 5.2.21-2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2023-11-25] Accepted bash 5.2.21-1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2023-01-09] bash 5.2.15-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-02] Accepted bash 5.2.15-2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2022-12-31] Accepted bash 5.2.15-1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2022-12-31] Accepted bash 5.2+dfsg-0.1 (source) into unstable (Bastian Germann) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2022-12-31] Accepted bash 5.2-3 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2022-10-31] bash 5.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 307 336
RC: 0
I&N: 184 207
M&W: 123 129
F&P: 0
patch: 34 38

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version: 5.3-3ubuntu1
157 bugs (5 patches)
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