diff --git a/packages/tools/dialog/meta b/packages/tools/dialog/meta
index f435cb2b3c..7b8aab144c 100644
--- a/packages/tools/dialog/meta
+++ b/packages/tools/dialog/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="tools"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="dialog: A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces from shell scripts. Dialog is initally written by Savio Lam and various branches do exist (e.g. lxdialog which is used for a linux kernel make menuconfig). This is the branch maintained by Thomas Dickey."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"