The following reply was made to PR pkg/34920; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Takayoshi Kochi" <takayoshi.kochi@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: taca@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34920: variables in DESCR is not interpolated
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:01:28 +0900

 Hi,
 
 >  On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:40:01AM +0000, kochi@NetBSD.org wrote:
 >  > >Synopsis:       variables in DESCR is not interpolated
 >
 >  DESCR should not contain any variables. It is used as-is
 >  for generating the web pages.
 >   Thomas
 
 Thomas, thanks for pointing out.
 Kambe-san, thanks for fixing ruby18-base.
 
 However, we have more instances in the tree that uses variables in DESCR.
 A quick grep found the following packages:
 
 converters/enriched2html
 devel/bcc
 editors/xcoral
 lang/f2c
 lang/ruby18
 misc/libutf
 pkgtools/x11-links
 pkgtools/xpkgwedge
 print/apsfilter
 print/ja-vflib-lib
 print/tex-musixtex
 security/uvscan
 sysutils/safetynet
 textprox/ezxml
 www/SpeedyCGI
 www/lhs
 
 Even one of them is owned by Kambe-san!
 
 Should I file PRs for each package? ;)
 Maybe we should have a check in the pkglint script.
 
 -- 
 Takayoshi Kochi