Bug#1100971: lintian: groff false +ve because tbl preprocessor not enabled for man pages

To: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>, 1100971@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#1100971: lintian: groff false +ve because tbl preprocessor not enabled for man pages
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:42:21 +0100
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FWIW, Lintian purposefully disables loading preprocessors that weren'texplicitly requested in the source. See bug #677874 (and #971009).


Adding

    '\" t

at the top of the source should fix the warnings.

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Jakub Wilk

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