diff --git a/bash.changes b/bash.changes
index 2784656..8aabf6d 100644
--- a/bash.changes
+++ b/bash.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jul 19 12:04:50 UTC 2012 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Do not mask internal _rl symbols as internal as there are many
+  tools out there which uses them (gdb as an example) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jul 18 11:17:00 UTC 2012 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/bash.spec b/bash.spec
index 58c8ce6..ef340f8 100644
--- a/bash.spec
+++ b/bash.spec
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ pushd ../readline-%{rl_vers}%{extend}
   (cat > rl.map)<<-'EOF'
 	{
 	local:
-	    _rl*;
+	/*  _rl*; */
 	    xfree;
 	    xmalloc;
 	    xrealloc;