It is pretty weird to work around a bug in "locales" in other packages. Especially a bug that affects hundreds of them.
I agree with your classification of this issue as RC -- but it should be fixed at the cause rather than in random places like man-db. And somehow it is "minor wontfix" there... -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org