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Sometimes it is necessary to manipulate PO files in a way that is better
performed automatically than by hand.  GNU <CODE>gettext</CODE> includes a
complete set of tools for this purpose.

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When merging two packages into a single package, the resulting POT file
will be the concatenation of the two packages' POT files.  Thus the
maintainer must concatenate the two existing package translations into
a single translation catalog, for each language.  Th