diff --git a/po/Makevars b/po/Makevars
index 779d8ac..4618f48 100644
--- a/po/Makevars
+++ b/po/Makevars
@@ -39,3 +39,15 @@ MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS =
 # This is the list of locale categories, beyond LC_MESSAGES, for which the
 # message catalogs shall be used.  It is usually empty.
 EXTRA_LOCALE_CATEGORIES =
+
+# This tells whether the $(DOMAIN).pot file contains messages with an 'msgctxt'
+# context.  Possible values are "yes" and "no".  Set this to yes if the
+# package uses functions taking also a message context, like pgettext(), or
+# if in $(XGETTEXT_OPTIONS) you define keywords with a context argument.
+USE_MSGCTXT = no
+
+# These options get passed to msgmerge.
+# Useful options are in particular:
+#   --previous            to keep previous msgids of translated messages,
+#   --quiet               to reduce the verbosity.
+MSGMERGE_OPTIONS =