[Bug 1872840] Re: (description)s variable not substituted in emails

[Mark Sapiro]

Note, if you really want to be able to include the list's description as
a replacement in the welcome message template, you can apply this patch
to Mailman/Deliverer.py

=== modified file 'Mailman/Deliverer.py'
--- Mailman/Deliverer.py	2018-06-17 23:47:34 +0000
+++ Mailman/Deliverer.py	2020-04-15 01:53:20 +0000
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
             'subscribeack.txt',
             {'real_name'   : self.real_name,
              'host_name'   : self.host_name,
+             'description' : self.description,
              'welcome'     : welcome,
              'umbrella'    : umbrella,
              'emailaddr'   : self.GetListEmail(),

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  (description)s variable not substituted in emails

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