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Checking out the translations of intltool-based packages

If you want to make sure that your packages translations are set up correctly, try running:

• For GNOME packages:

cd po; intltool-update -m

and be sure to either fix the issues or report them upstream.

Note: this is only worth trying if the package uses intltool for i18n (i.e. look for intltool.m4 in the top-level source directory)

• For GNU packages:
• For KDE packages:

Sometimes empty .po files caused packages to fail to build from source.

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