So I don't see either of the fixes that Martin did on my Intrepid
machine.  GDM's locale.conf doesn't use eo_XX and langpack-locales still
calls the locale 'eo'.  So I'm not sure what's up with that.

However, I believe the real problem lies in belocs-locales-bin:

When installing a language-pack-XX-base package, the program 'install-
language-pack' is called with the language code during postinst.  The
expectation is that this will generate all UTF-8 locales for that
language on the system.  This occurs by in turn calling locale-gen and
expecting it to fallback to its 'guess that the user wants all locales'
algorithm if it can't find the exact specified locale in
/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED.

However, the language eo has a locale in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
called just 'eo'.  So locale-gen thinks that the caller wants that
specific locale and never uses its 'install all locales for the
language' fallback logic.

Even if it did use that logic, the code assumes that there is a country
code for all UTF-8 locales.  This might not be the case, as eo shows
(there is a 'eo.UTF-8' locale).

Attached is a debdiff for jaunty that modifies locale-gen to add a new
argument --lang that tells it that the passed argument is really a
language code, not a specific locale that we want generated.  This part
is needed to bypass the exact match of 'eo'.

Then, I also modified locale-gen to use a slightly more clever 'find all
UTF-8 locales' algorithm that anticipates locales without country codes
(like eo.UTF-8 and any other such).

I added the --lang option to the install-language-pack script and
modified remove-language-pack to support deleting locales that don't
have country codes.

** Attachment added: "belocs-eo.debdiff"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21806144/belocs-eo.debdiff

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