Translations in frameworks released tarballs

[Christoph Feck]

On Tuesday 08 July 2014 07:56:17 Alexander Potashev wrote:
> 2014-07-08 3:01 GMT+04:00 Christoph Feck <christoph at maxiom.de>:
> > Is there a way to detect and strip unused strings in the release
> > tarballs?
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> Quick googling gives this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8149435/how-to-delete-obsolete-t
> ranslations-in-gettext So,
>     msgattrib --output-file=xxx.po --no-obsolete xxx.po

Is it possible to strip them before the archives are packed? Or can 
they even be stripped in the repositories?