Source: dash Section: shells Priority: optional Maintainer: Andrej Shadura Uploaders: Gerrit Pape Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), po-debconf Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Homepage: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dash.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dash Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: dash Architecture: any Multi-Arch: foreign Essential: yes Priority: required Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Depends: debianutils (>= 5.6-0.1), ${misc:Depends}, Description: POSIX-compliant shell The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash. . Since it executes scripts faster than bash, and has fewer library dependencies (making it more robust against software or hardware failures), it is used as the default system shell on Debian systems.