Bug#321580: locales: installation fails because of sr_YU@cyrillic

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.5-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

When I try to install the locales package (as an upgrade):

Setting up locales (2.3.5-3) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_DK.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  fr_FR.ISO-8859-1... done
  fr_FR.UTF-8... done
  fr_FR.UTF-8@euro... done
  fr_FR.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
  ar_AE.ISO-8859-6... done
  bs_BA.ISO-8859-2... done
  el_GR.ISO-8859-7... done
  en_GB.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_GB.ISO-8859-15... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-15... done
  lg_UG.ISO-8859-10... done
  lt_LT.ISO-8859-13... done
  sr_YU.ISO-8859-5@cyrillic...cannot open locale definition file `sr_YU@cyrillic': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Errors were encountered while processing:
 locales
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

And "dpkg-reconfigure locales" fails too:

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is broken or not fully installed

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.10-20050517
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.55     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.5-3]         2.3.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

locales recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: None
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_DK ISO-8859-1, en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR ISO-8859-1, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8@euro UTF-8, fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15, ar_AE ISO-8859-6, bs_BA ISO-8859-2, el_GR ISO-8859-7, en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, lg_UG ISO-8859-10, lt_LT ISO-8859-13, sr_YU@cyrillic ISO-8859-5, tr_TR ISO-8859-9