Bug#586489: locales needs higher dpkg priority

[Mark Hedges <hedges@scriptdolphin.com>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.11.1-3
Severity: normal


A recent large `apt-get dist-upgrade` included update of locales
to this version.  It seems like configuration of locales should
occur first before configuring other packages.  During the upgrade,
I got a lot of stuff like the following.  I also could not use
`reportbug` until configuration was finished because new terminals
had unacceptable 'C' locale with LANG us-ascii or something like that.
Thanks!  --mark--

Processing triggers for man-db ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Setting up gcc-4.4-base (4.4.4-5) ...


Preparing to replace empathy 2.28.2-3 (using .../empathy_2.30.1-2+b1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement empathy ...
Replacing files in old package libempathy-gtk-common ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.11-1]          2.11.1-3   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

locales recommends no packages.

locales suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  locales/default_environment_locale: en_US.UTF-8
  locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8