apacheds.sh script does not run under Debian based distros

The tar.gz distribution of apacheds is throwing an error while trying to run

./apacheds.sh start

./apacheds.sh: 64: ./apacheds.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting ")")

After some research, and since works fine under Arch Linux, I figured out the that the script (apacheds.sh) is using the /bin/sh link. Which under Debian systems is pointing to dash (the Debian Almquist Shell).

Changing the first line of the script to

#!/bin/bash