My build was failing due to duplicate (but commented out?!) translations: af.po:15701: duplicate message definition... af.po:2027: ...this is the location of the first definition af.po:15704: duplicate message definition... af.po:2034: ...this is the location of the first definition af.po:15707: duplicate message definition... af.po:2038: ...this is the location of the first definition so I deleted them.