* Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>, 2020-07-24 12:13:
For 15 years or at least, I've not paid any attention to adding the 't'
comments when I added tables to pages, and I do recall anyone reporting
ill effects. So, I'm inclined to apply Mike's patch, but will hold off
a moment, in case there's other feedback.
I'm a bit late, but...
Lintian, the Debian package checker, sets the MANROFFSEQ environment
variable to empty string as a speed optimization. This turns off loading
preprocessors that weren't explicitly declared in the source. The lack
of '\" comments can cause false positives (and maybe also false
negatives?) in Lintian.
The use of $MANROFFSEQ for Lintian was proposed here:
https://bugs.debian.org/677874
Beware that the man(1) man page does not correctly explain what
$MANROFFSEQ does: https://bugs.debian.org/971009
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Jakub Wilk
