Can no longer assign to LINENO in bash3

[bronson]

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' 
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-pc-linux-gnu' 
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib   -g -O2
uname output: Linux lea 2.6.9-1-k7 #1 Wed Dec 15 19:12:42 GMT 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i386-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 3.0
Patch Level: 16
Release Status: release

Description:

I execute the following script from the prompt, $ . tt.sh

    echo $LINENO
    LINENO=11
    echo $LINENO

When I run it on bash 2.05b I get exactly what I would expect:

    1
    12

But when I trun it on bash 3.0, I get:

    1
    3

There are a number of bash scripts that rely on the ability to set
the line number so that proper error messages can be generated.
Without it, line numbers in error messages end up incorrect.

Is there a shopt or some other way of working around this?

Thanks,

    - Scott