Hello,

while evaluating localepurge on the Openmoko FreeRunner [1], I
discovered that localepurge depends on locales, which requires quite a
lot of space:
=====
debian-gta02:~# apt-get install localepurge
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  localepurge locales
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4529kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
[...]
[locale set to en_US.UTF-8]
[...]
debian-gta02:~#
=====

On embedded devices like the Openmoko FreeRunner, every single MB
counts.  This is why it would be good to have a minimal locales-base
package localepurge can depend on.

FYI, I have not checked why localepurge needs locales.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes:
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner?action=diff&rev2=90&rev1=89

These days, the C.UTF-8 locale is guaranteed to be available.  This makes
installation of "locales" unneeded for someone content with an English
language system.

This serves the purpose of that "locales-base" you wanted.
With this functionality built-in into libc, there's no need for localepurge
to depend on "locales" anymore.