Bug#183449: locale-gen ignores errors from localedef

[pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk]

Package: locales
Version: 2.2.5-11.2

I was trying to generate a new locale, and this happened:

kuzuth:/home/pm215# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_GB.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 22:  4589 Killed                  localedef -i $input -c -f $charset $locale
 done
Generation complete.
kuzuth:/home/pm215# echo $?
0


(The process was killed by the VM's OOM killer, as it happens.)

The bug is that locale-gen is ignoring the error return from 
localedef and exiting with a success code. It should probably be using
"set -e" or something similar. 

Also, I'm sure it shouldn't need all those "; \" at the end of each line!
I suspect shell script was not the author's native language...

-- PMM