Re: [bjarniig@simnet.is: kernel-img.conf.5: warning from "lint"]

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2026-05-05 at 02:01 +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
[...]
>   Looking at the links/lintian part of the home page of the package
> "linux-base" and seeing this:
> 
> tbl preprocessor failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not 
> rendered (TE macro called with TW register undefined)

Well, the same warning can be seen for groff's own man pages:

https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?email1=&email2=&email3=&packages=groff&ignpackages=&format=html&lt_error=on&lt_warning=on&lintian_tag=groff-message#all

(and in many other packages).  I think this is actually a bug in
lintian.

[...]
>   Reproduced with
> 
> groff -mandoc -ww -z kernel-img.conf.5:
> 
> an.tmac:kernel-img.conf.5.new:47: warning: tbl preprocessor failed, or it or 
> soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE macro called with TW 
> register undefined)

But man does use tbl, and:

    man --warnings=w kernel-img.conf

shows no such warning.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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