On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Michael Prokop <bts@bts.grml.org> wrote:

>> It is not a big deal for other configurations, but generating locales
>> takes a lot of time on my PC.
>
> Hm interesting. Which "additional packages" do you have?
> Is the issue still unresolved from your side?

I think I might have found the cause -- my problem:

I have been reusing an old debootstrap local cache, in which 'locales' is old:

The following packages will be upgraded:
  dhcp3-client dhcp3-common libpci3 locales pciutils perl-base

I think this is the reason, but I'll double check....

cheers