NAME

       pkgstriptranslations  -  extract  translation  files  and  remove  gettext  *.mo files from package build
       directories

SYNOPSIS

       pkgstriptranslations

DESCRIPTION

       pkgstriptranslations extracts all gettext related files from the source and package build directories and
       puts  them  into  <pkg-build-dir>/../package_version_arch_suffix.tar.gz.   suffix  is   configurable   in
       /etc/pkgbinarymangler/striptranslations.conf and defaults to translations.

       Tarball layout:

       source/
              contains all pot and po files from source package, preserving the directory structure.

       debname1/, debname2/, ...
              There  will  be  one  directory per generated binary deb package, each contains all .mo files from
              this deb, preserving directory structure.

       This script also removes all gettext *.mo files below  <pkg-build-dir>/usr/share/locale  from  all  built
       binary  packages.   It  will  also  remove subdirectories which became empty after removal of the gettext
       files. However, if a file /CurrentlyBuilding is present (as on the Ubuntu autobuilders),  then  the  *.mo
       files  are  only deleted if the Component: value in this file matches one of the components configured in
       /etc/pkgbinarymangler/striptranslations.conf.  This allows to selectively strip  files  only  for  source
       packages which are in e. g.  main and restricted, but not in e. g.  universe.

       By  default,  pkgstriptranslations is inactive. To enable it, the enable option in the configuration file
       must be set to true.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       NO_PKG_MANGLE
              If this variable is set to a nonempty value, then pkgstriptranslations is disabled. This  is  most
              useful if source packages build nested binary packages as part of their build.

AUTHOR

       pkgstriptranslations is developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com>.

Martin Pitt                                     December 17, 2004                        pkgstriptranslations(1)