The manpage had completely incorrect command line arguments (triple dashes?!)
[gnome.seed] / po /
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-rw-r--r-- 201 .cvsignore
-rw-r--r-- 0 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 48 LINGUAS
-rw-r--r-- 68 POTFILES.in
-rw-r--r-- 36 POTFILES.skip