transifex dropped support for their v2 API. Instead of using the
makefile to fetch new translations, you can now use their cli tool.

It changes the transifex urls that are used for localization, updates to
related documentation as well.

Related: #614

until we include a language switcher, this is how we can test
translations.

tweak sizes and alignments

Upstreamed patch from Gentoo Linux
If we are using plugins we also need autodoc

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>

just a dump from a working pad, comments are welcome

that makes build fail in launchpad

this can be used from any build script to distinguish the version string
that will be displayed (ie: 0.21.2-debian-1)

- Resolves: #468