Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
Is the behaviour identical if you create an new .pro file containing only TRANSLATIONS lines?
No.
Qt Code: 
  1. TRANSLATIONS = test_de.ts \
  2.                test_en.ts
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Qt Code: 
  1. C:\test>lupdate test.pro
  2. Updating 'test_de.ts'...
  3.     Found 0 source texts (0 new and 0 already existing)
  4. Updating 'test_en.ts'...
  5.     Found 0 source texts (0 new and 0 already existing)
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