Add the collation partition to the build
Includes a small linux-only bash script to generate locale partitions
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This tool, which only works on Linux, uses your system's locale data to
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generate a collator partition for Tangara. This partition is uses to sort
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database information (album names, etc.) in a way that makes sense to humans.
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Because this script isn't portable, `Generic.LC_COLLATE` is included as a
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pregenerated collator partition that should work well for most people's
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music libraries.
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## Partition format
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The collator partition has 3MiB reserved for it in the partition table, which
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is enough to hold the compiled collation data for ISO14651 character sorting,
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plus a small amount of free space.
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The first 8 bytes of the partition are reserved for a partition name; usually
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the name of the locale that the collation data was compiled for, or 'Generic'
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for ISO14651 data.
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Following the 8 byte name, is a complete LC_COLLATE file, as generate by GNU
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libc's `localedef` utility. Debian's version 2.37 of this utility is known to
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work.
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FIXME: We should vendor this version of the tool, so that our format remains
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stable across glibc changes.
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