This bugreport is outdated, sorry. As far as I can see, bash has got its own implementation of readline and doesn't depend on libreadline5 or readline-common:
$ ls bash-4.2/lib/readline/ So, I think, the bugreport may be closed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org