At the moment, C4::Auth::get_all_subpermissions() uses `permissions.description` to build a hashref of subpermissions. It needs the `description` column to provide a true value, and that's really the only purpose I see within C4::Auth. It's also used in member-flags.pl, bu Bug 13632 (thttp://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13632) will make negate the need for descrption from C4::Auth::get_all_subpermissions(). -- As for `userflags`, it looks like `userflags.flagdesc` is only used in member-flags.pl, and could be safely removed.
Done in bug 13632. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13632 ***