Bug#441360: locales 2.6.1-2 ships /etc/default/locale as a conffile

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.6.1-2
Severity: serious

The most recent version of locales includes /etc/default/locale as a
conffile.

According to Policy 10.7.3,

  [a conffile] is appropriate only if it is possible to distribute a default
  version that will work for most installations, although some system
  administrators may choose to modify it.  This implies that the default
  version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be modified
  by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other time).

Treating /etc/default/locale as a conffile therefore fails Policy on two
points:

 - there is no sensible default that can be used by the majority of systems
 - this config file *has already been created and modified by other package
   scripts*, and the locales package has no business asserting ownership of
   the file after the fact

Please fix this serious bug that will cause inappropriate conffile prompts
when upgrading any Debian system installed in the past 4 years.

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