Thanks for the reminder. I sorta forgot the issue. My plan-B was to simply set-up an sftp-accessible folder where people can download stuff. I prepared it, but didn't actually post about it.

I'll add it to my to-do list for this week to check/request maintainership for bash4.
(note that the above doesn't mean much, but at least it exerts a bit of pressure on me, so I might actually do it