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general

source: bash (main)
version: 5.3-2
maintainer: Matthias Klose (DMD)
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.3
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: 5.3-1
unstable: 5.3-2

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]
5.3-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.3-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

bash (312 bugs: 0, 193, 119, 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: 2026-02-17 12:30

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: 2025-09-03 Last update: 2025-09-10 10:33

33 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 33 bugs (37 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2026-02-17 15:00

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: 2026-02-17 12:31

debian/patches: 27 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 27 debian patches available in version 5.3-2 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

27 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: 2026-02-16 10:55

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:
- Migrates after: glibc
- Migration status for bash (5.3-1 to 5.3-2): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bats-assert: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bats-file: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bats-support: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bd: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for ca-certificates-java: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for capnproto: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for comitup: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for debian-goodies: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dkim-rotate: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for drbl: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for elixir-lang: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for endlessh: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for firebuild: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for flexc++: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for flxmlrpc: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for fonts-fork-awesome: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gdm3: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gffread: amd64: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gt5: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for hippotat: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for icmake: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for imagemagick: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for imx-code-signing-tool: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for leiningen-clojure: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libdeflate: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for librsb: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for lintian: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for linuxinfo: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for liquidprompt: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for logcheck: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for lsb-release-minimal: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for meson: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for nix: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for num-utils: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-21: amd64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-25: amd64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openjdk-26: amd64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pass-otp: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for popa3d: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for prokka: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for spin: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for sssd: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for streamlink: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for systemd: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for txt2regex: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for userv: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for vm: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xchpst: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xdg-utils: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xonsh: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for yabasic: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 4 of 5 days old
- ∙ ∙ Built-Using: bash glibc (not considered)
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/b/bash.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on arm64
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on armhf
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on i386
- ∙ ∙ Reproducibility regression on ppc64el: bash, bash-static
- Not considered

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[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)
[2022-10-31] bash 5.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-31] bash 5.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-24] Accepted bash 5.2-2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2022-09-28] Accepted bash 5.2-1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 304 333
RC: 0
I&N: 182 205
M&W: 122 128
F&P: 0
patch: 33 37

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ubuntu

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version: 5.3-1ubuntu1
215 bugs (9 patches)
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