Bug#537743: locales-all postinst uses too much RAM

[Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>]

Package: locales-all
Version: 2.9-20
Severity: normal

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Hi,

I was under the impression that locales-all’s purpose is to be installed
on machines too weak to compile the locales tables themselves.
Nevertheless, the postinst for locales-all extracts a large armound of
data to /tmp (which these days, especially on mobilde devices, often is
a tmpfs) calls localedef.

(I admit I can’t check which one is causing more problems, because the
device does not react at the moment).

Would it be possible to have locales-all completely static? Or maybe
otherwise reduce the workload to be done at postinst time?

Thanks,
Joachim

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages locales-all depends on:
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.9-1]           2.9-20     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in

locales-all recommends no packages.

locales-all suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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