i18n: Machinery in po/

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

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+The dgit source package contains dgit and git-debrebase.
+
+Translation organisation:
+
+  po/messages.pot	all messages from both dgit and git-debrebase
+  po/LANG.po		translations of those
+  po/mo			output directory, do not look here
+
+  po4a/			documentation (TBD)
+
+Important make targets for translators.
+NB all of these are after "cd po/".
+
+  make <LANGUAGE>.po	Create <LANGUAGE>.po so you can start translating,
+			or update messages.pot <LANGUAGE>.po.
+
+  make all-po		Updates messages.pot from all the sources,
+			with new messages, and merges them into
+			all the language-specific .po files
+
+  make check		Update everything and then check everything
+			and print translation statistics.
+
+The en_US translation is slightly special.  It is used for testing the
+translation machinery, and since the source native language is en_GB,
+there is not much other need for the en_US translation.