Package: dash Version: 0.5.8-2.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
autotools configure scripts always fall back to bash due to switched-off $LINENO support. This makes running ./configure scripts much slower in comparison to using dash. I am aware of #766048, but the provided link is no longer available and thus it is not possible to see why the build failed. Maybe these 'several packages' needs to be fixed. As developer who uses ./configure all day long, I am suffering from not being able to use dash. AFAIK, other distros do not use --disable-lineno for packaging. Regards, Tim -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 4.8 ii dpkg 1.18.10 ii libc6 2.24-5 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true
