[bug #68378] some man pages lack a first line to hint at man(1) to run tbl(1)

Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #68378 (group groff):

From c657b0f54bb80b136a0331e57db35921415b0c56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 20:37:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing "'\" t" line to man pages

  The lintian(1) in the Debian distribution reports a warning when the
preprocessor 'tbl' is needed and the first line in a man page does not
begin with

'\" t

  See man(1), chapter "DEFAULTS".

  Fixes bug #68378 .

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>
---
 contrib/chem/chem.1.man         | 1 +
 man/groff_tmac.5.man            | 1 +
 src/devices/gropdf/gropdf.1.man | 1 +
 src/roff/groff/groff.1.man      | 1 +
 tmac/groff_www.7.man            | 1 +
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

-.-

  The patch is in the attachment.


(file #58652)

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