gettext: Release Management

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1 13.7 Creating a Distribution Tarball
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1    In projects that use GNU ‘automake’, the usual commands for creating
1 a distribution tarball, ‘make dist’ or ‘make distcheck’, automatically
1 update the PO files as needed.
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1    If GNU ‘automake’ is not used, the maintainer needs to perform this
1 update before making a release:
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1      $ ./configure
1      $ (cd po; make update-po)
1      $ make distclean
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