Apparently, the content of /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local never gets
cleaned up and it retained the list of all locales ever generated. That
at least explains why "locale-gen --purge" re-generated the same
unwanted locales.

$ dpkg -S /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local 
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

So, I deleted it to see whether it would improve anything, before I ran
"locale-gen --purge" again. This indeed finally solved the issue of
generating spurrious locales. Now, remains the question of which package
should perform this clean-up upon upgrade, so figure out where to commit
the fix.

The question as to what appended unwanted locales to my .profile and to
/etc/environment upon upgrading  from Lucid to Precise remains open,
though.

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  Lucid to Precise: language-selector changed my desktop 's default
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