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diff --git a/best-pkging-practices.dbk b/best-pkging-practices.dbk
index ca9f149..c436c6f 100644
--- a/best-pkging-practices.dbk
+++ b/best-pkging-practices.dbk
@@ -1360,6 +1360,13 @@ type documented in <citerefentry> <refentrytitle>po-debconf</refentrytitle>
 
 <section id="bpp-i18n">
 <title>Internationalization</title>
+<para>
+This section contains global information for developers to make translators'
+life easier.  More information for translators and developers interrested
+in internationalization are available in the <ulink
+url="&url-i18n-l10n;">Internationalisation and localisation in Debian</ulink>
+documentation.
+</para>
 <section id="bpp-i18n-debconf">
 <title>Handling debconf translations</title>
 <para>
@@ -1421,6 +1428,14 @@ language-independent information and define those as entities in a separate
 file which is included by all the different translations.  This makes it much
 easier, for instance, to keep URLs up to date across multiple files.
 </para>
+<para>
+Some tools (e.g. <systemitem role="package">po4a</systemitem>, <systemitem
+role="package">poxml</systemitem>, or the <systemitem
+role="package">translate-toolkit</systemitem>) are specialized in extracting
+the translatable material from different formats.  They produce PO files, a
+format quite common to translators, which permits to see what needs to be
+retranslated when the translated document is updated.
+</para>
 </section>
 
 </section>