Bug#173382: locales: locale-gen does not generate locale folders in /usr/lib/locale anymore

["Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.1-5
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

While investigating possible causes for bug#173128 (libgtk1.2), I found out that locales
directories are not generated as /usr/lib/locale/<xx_XX@foo> in locales 2.3.1.  Instead,
a huge /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive file whose size is proportional to the number of
locales requested in /etc/locales.gen is generated.

This breaks _all_ gtk1.2 applications.  The bug is reproducible on i386 and hppa.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux share 2.4.19 #1 ke marras 27 16:25:34 EET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI@euro, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.16     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.1-5]         2.3.1-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an