Bug#245337: locales package does not seem to obay Debconf configuration

["Jerry Haltom" <jhaltom@feedbackplusinc.com>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
Severity: normal

We are trying to set our office's locale settings by changing the debconf setting locales/locales_to_be_generated to be a properly formed list of locales that should be generated. However, the locales package ignores our settings, and overrides the selections in the actual multiselect combo box with the actual contents of /etc/locale.gen. This prevents usage of Debconf to properly configure these questions non-interactively.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11]  2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_US.UTF-8
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8