Tails Greeter is a native Debian package.

Update POT and PO files

./setup.py build_i18n && \
   (cd po && \
       for po in *.po ; do msgmerge --update "$po" \
       tails-greeter.pot ; done \
   ) && \
   git commit po -m 'Update POT and PO files.'

Update the Debian package

Checkout the correct branch:

git checkout master

Update debian/changelog:

git-dch

(Do not forget to set the appropriate release.)

Commit the changelog:

git commit debian/changelog -m "$(head -n 1 debian/changelog | sed -e 's,).*,),')"

Build a new Debian package (use a Squeeze/i386 chroot):

git-buildpackage

If everything is fine, tag the release and push the changes:

git-buildpackage --git-tag-only --git-sign-tags --git-keyid=$PGP_PUB_KEY && \
git push && git push --tags

Add the Debian package to Tails

Sign the package:

debsign $CHANGES_FILE

Upload:

dupload --to tails $CHANGES_FILE