LOCALES PISSES ME OFF

dpkg-reconfigure makes you go through that ridiculously long list and tediously pick the ones you need (two for each language) and next update it makes you do it all over again. I want to punch someone...

Please backup the file /etc/locale.gen before doing anything. I just:
sudo cp /etc/locale.gen /etc/locale.bak
Then every time locales gets updated all you have to do is restore your (my) work from the bak file instead of redoing it all over again and again and again..
sudo locale-gen
..everything back the way it was. Tada, stoopid shit fixed.

Why can't they just not screw it up? I'm tired of dealing with it!