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14.8 Creating a Distribution Tarball
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   First, in packages where the translations are collected by a
translation project, before creating a distribution tarball, the
maintainer should fetch the PO files from the translators.  There are
two ways to do this: Either

     $ (cd po; ./fetch-po)

or

     $ ./configure
     $ (cd po; make fetch-po)
     $ make distclean

   Second, updating generated files.  In projects that use GNU
‘automake’, the usual commands for creating a distribution tarball,
‘make dist’ or ‘make distcheck’, automatically update the generated
files in the ‘po/’ directories as needed.

   If GNU ‘automake’ is not used, the maintainer needs to perform this
update before making a release:

     $ ./configure
     $ (cd po; make update-po)
     $ make distclean