Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

[Steve Langasek]
> Isn't /etc/environment a config file belonging to libpam-modules?  (Isn't
> this the whole reason for the feature request of using a different common
> config file for locale information?)

Yes, this issue is well summarized in
   http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2003/09/msg00075.html

> In that case, what business does the locales package have editing this file
> at all?

As you can imagine, this is exactly what I am trying to fix.

Denis