[ale] /usr/lib/locale on Debian-ish systems?

[John Wells]

Anyone know how the files in /usr/lib/locale (on Debian or Ubuntu) are generated?

I have a box that has: 

wellsj at bigblue:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/locale
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_AU.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_BW.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_CA.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_DK.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_GB.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_HK.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_IE.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_IN
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_NZ.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_PH.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_SG.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:33 en_US.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:34 en_ZA.utf8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-03 12:35 en_ZW.utf8

Then, we have a debootstrap'd VE (OpenVZ) that is for some reason missing these files. No deb package (through apt-file search, for each'ing through dpkg -l with dpkg -L, or the apt-cache) reports providing them, so I assume they're generated in some way.

Anyone know?

Thanks!
John