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

From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
To: takayoshi.kochi@gmail.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34920: variables in DESCR is not interpolated
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:08:46 +0900 (JST)

 In message <43c301fe0610292301n3a6f4e86j1f9ed47e10b5bffc@mail.gmail.com>
 	on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:01:28 +0900,
 	"Takayoshi Kochi" <takayoshi.kochi@gmail.com> wrote:
 > >  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:
 I wished to check them but had no time.
 
 ...
 > lang/ruby18
 ...
 
 > Even one of them is owned by Kambe-san!
 Oops, I've just fixed it.
 
 -- 
 Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>