Comment 2 for bug 1394929

the package is not required. you can generate the locales on the fly for package builds (or build-depending on various language-pack packages).

$ cat locale-gen
#!/bin/sh

LOCPATH=`pwd`/locales
export LOCPATH

[ -d $LOCPATH ] || mkdir -p $LOCPATH

umask 022

echo "Generating locales..."
while read locale charset; do
        case $locale in \#*) continue;; esac
        [ -n "$locale" -a -n "$charset" ] || continue
        echo -n " `echo $locale | sed 's/\([^.\@]*\).*/\1/'`"
        echo -n ".$charset"
        echo -n `echo $locale | sed 's/\([^\@]*\)\(\@.*\)*/\2/'`
        echo -n '...'
        if [ -f $LOCPATH/$locale ]; then
            input=$locale
        else
            input=`echo $locale | sed 's/\([^.]*\)[^@]*\(.*\)/\1\2/'`
        fi
        localedef -i $input -c -f $charset $LOCPATH/$locale #-A /etc/locale.alias
        echo ' done'; \
done <<EOF
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
en_HK ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
es_ES ISO-8859-1
EOF

echo "Generation complete."

$ LOCPATH=... <run your command>