bash from testing broken?

["A.R. \(Tom\) Peters" <tpeters@xs4all.nl>]

I have had incompatibility problems with bash from testing.

$ dpkg -s bash
Package: bash
...
Status: install ok installed
Installed-Size: 630
Version: 2.05a-2
Depends: base-files (>= 2.1.12)
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), 
libreadline4 (>= 4.2a)
...

$ ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       430700 Nov 16 19:12 /bin/bash

But it doesn't work:

$ /bin/bash --version
/bin/bash: relocation error: /bin/bash: undefined symbol: history_max_entries

All dependencies are met, and the package installs just fine; so I do not
expect it to be broken.  In fact, this broke my system severly as you can
imagine.


This one does work:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1227483 Jul  5  2000 /bin/bash


Note that it is 3 times the size of the newer one.  Something must have
changed.  All lib dependencies are the same however according to `ldd`.

Anyone else recognises these problems?  I did report a bug, but didn't get
a response yet.

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