Hello, > I do not fully understand this. Why is removing it a bad idea as > it is regenerated anyway?
There is at least three reasons : 1) All translators do not know how to create a pot file (for some packets it's very difficult). If source package include pot file, this is easier for them. 2) The translators teams use robots which automatically scan source packages, search pot files and put these files "for translation" at translators. If there is no pot file, the robot believes that the package is not ready for the l10n and the packet has much less luck to be translated in another language. 3) The pot is always recreated at each build time by the maintener and that allows all translators to work on the same pot (include in source package) and not each one on a different pot according to the options which they will have taken for pot file creating. Consequently, it is not essential to leave the pot but is much better to do it. I hope that my explanations were lucid. Regards Valéry Perrin
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