Anonymous
Robin, install the “intltool” debian package if it is not already present on your system
(AFAIK, “intltool-debian” package is preinstalled but “intltool” is not).
These utilities might cover the much of the workflow.
/usr/bin/intltool-extract
/usr/bin/intltool-merge
/usr/bin/intltool-prepare
/usr/bin/intltool-update
/usr/bin/intltoolize
man intltool-extract
man intltool-merge
man intltool-prepare
man intltool-update
man intltoolize
man xgettext
I have been (still am) just grasping at straws here.
Hmm… http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html
^–v
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Update-an-Existing-Translation-File
[the following example would] concatenate the compendium file(s) and the existing PO, merge the result with the POT file and remove the obsolete entries (optional, here done using ‘msgattrib’):
msgcat --use-first -o update.po compendium1.po compendium2.po file.po msgmerge update.po file.pot | msgattrib --no-obsolete > file.po