I have packaging of gnulib-l10n for Debian here:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gnulib-l10n/

Some comments:

1) Where is version controlled sources?  I see that README, configure.ac
etc looks hand written, so I presume these are stored somewhere, and I
think it makes sense to keep a git repository around for this.

2) Regarding license, the README says:

"It is under LGPLv2+."

Which is a bit thin.  First, the file COPYING contains LGPL version 2.1
so clarifying which version helps.  Is it intentional that configure.ac
Makefile.am are GPLv3+?  The essential part of this package, the po/*.po
files, have various different license that aren't always completely
clear, and not always LGPLv2+.  For example po/af.po:

# coreutils-5.2.1.af.po.
# Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# Petri Jooste <rkw...@puknet.puk.ac.za>, 2004.

Coreutils or gnulib?  GPL or LGP?

po/ca.po:

# GNU Mailutils Catalan translation.
# Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the mailutils package.
# Jordi Mallach <jo...@gnu.org>, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

Huh?

# Japanese gnulib messages
# Copyright (C) 2000, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is distributed under the same license as the gnulib package.

Generally these non-specific license referrals are not clear.  What
license is gnulib released under?  I don't think that is well-defined.

# Norwegian messages for GNU textutils (bokm<E5>l dialect)
# Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Eivind Tagseth <eivi...@multinet.no>, 1996, 1997, 1999.

Textutils?

/Simon

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