The variables in documents is not replaced with.
Why?
$ ./configure --with-docbook=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1
$ make
$ make html
$ sudo make install
$ man afpd
...
FILES
@pkgconfdir@/afp.conf
configuration file used by afpd
${prefix}/var/netatalk/afp_signature.conf list of server signature ${prefix}/var/netatalk/afp_voluuid.conf list of UUID for Time Machine volume @pkgconfdir@/extmap.conf file name extension mapping @pkgconfdir@/msg/message.pid contains messages to be sent to users.
This is not isolated to the afpd man page. It affects at least half a dozen pages.
Bug migrated to github for tracking https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/383