NAME

       debconf-updatepo - update PO files about debconf templates

SYNOPSIS

       debconf-updatepo [-v] [-h] [--podir=DIR] [--skip-pot] [--skip-merge] [--msgid-bugs-address=EMAIL]

DESCRIPTION

       This program reads po/POTFILES.in to determine which master files need to be processed, then extracts new
       gettext strings into  po/templates.pot and updates all po/*.po files.  This script can be called either
       in the top-level directory, or in the debian or debian/po subdirectories.  It is run by developer and/or
       translator to update PO files when the English text is modified in templates files.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
           Display a usage summary and exit.

       -v, --verbose
           Process in verbose mode.

       --podir=DIR
           Set directory for PO files.  By default PO files are searched in debian/po, po and ../po directories
           in that order.

       --skip-pot
           Do not generate a new po/templates.pot file.

       --skip-merge
           Do not merge existing PO files with po/templates.pot.

       --msgid-bugs-address=EMAIL
           Set the email address that will be specified in the POT's Report-Msgid-Bugs-To field.

           By default, this field is set to <package>@package.debian.org.

           It is intended for the maintainers of Debian based distributions, and should be used in the following
           cases:

           o   The package is not present in Debian (and thus the <package>@packages.debian.org address does not
               exist).

           o   The maintainer made significant changes in the debconf templates (or added templates to a Debian
               package without templates), and does not want to bother the Debian maintainer with bug reports
               that won't be relevant for the Debian maintainer.

           The default address is preferred to avoid corrections in the Debian based distribution without a
           notification to the Debian maintainer.

SEE ALSO

       debconf-gettextize(1), po2debconf(1), podebconf-report-po(1), po-debconf(7).

AUTHOR

         Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>

                                                   2020-12-30                                DEBCONF-UPDATEPO(1)