DH_TRANSLATIONS(1)

💖 DH_TRANSLATIONS(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Debhelper manual, and it's all about dh_translations ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dh_translations — perform common translation related operations 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dh_translations [debhelper options]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so dh_translations is a debhelper program, and what it does is handle the everyday, common translation-ish chores while your package is being built. no cap, it just does the little gettext-lore tasks so you don't have to 🫶

here's the tea on what it actually handles:

• it tries to build a current PO template 🌈 — and heads up, it's only dealing with the main gettext domain of the project. it does not build help-* templates, and it does not build any other additional translation templates. just the main one, periodt.
• it removes inline translations from *.desktop, *.server, *.schemas, and *.policy files 📝 and replaces them with a link to the gettext domain. why tho? because that way the strings inside those files get translated at runtime from *.mo files 💅 and the iconique payoff is that this lets language packs ship updated translations later. slay.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --domain=domain — you can hand over the gettext domain right here through this option ⭐ this is lowkey essential for packages using the Meson build system, so you can tell dh_translations exactly which domain to use when there's more than one candidate. it's also highkey useful for other packages when dh_translations just... can't figure out the correct domain all by itself 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• debhelper(1)

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>

Copyright (C) 2011 Canonical Ltd., licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.

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fr fr, that's the whole page. go forth and translate 💖

and that's a wrap bestie — this was DH_TRANSLATIONS(1) from Debhelper, page 158, dated 2026-06-16 🦋 bye mwah 💋