Currently, a description like:
description = "We are the 99%"
is not accepted in an easyconfig file, it results in an error like:
File ".../easybuild/framework/easyconfig.py", line 619, in _resolve_template
value = value % self.template_values
ValueError: unsupported format character 't' (0x74) at index 117
The templates functionality should be made more robust against this, i.e. only take named string templates into account, and auto-escape anything else.