Bug#459591: apache2.2-common: Please include NameWidth=* in default IndexOptions

[Edward Welbourne <eddy@opera.com>]

Package: apache2.2-common
Version: 2.2.6-2
Severity: wishlist


I sporadically run into web sites with directory listing enabled but
can't read large parts of the file names because the site hasn't configured
IndexOptions NameWidth=*
or some specific value for NameWidth.  The problem is particularly
severe when the directory being indexed is a download directory for
some software, offering several versions of the software, each in
several packagings (.deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, etc.); typically, all of the
package file names have the same initial part, so the directory
listing just shows lots of identical lines ending in ... and I have to
hover to get the browser to tell me each name.

Including NameWidth=* in the IndexOptions specified by the default
autoindex.conf would solve this problem (albeit slowly, as web sites
may take time to upgrade, especially sites which haven't gotten round
to fixing this problem for themselves).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on:
ii  apache2-utils           2.2.6-2          utility programs for webservers
ii  libapr1                 1.2.11-1         The Apache Portable Runtime Librar
ii  libaprutil1             1.2.7+dfsg-2+b1  The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit
ii  libc6                   2.7-5            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.4                4.4.20-11        Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libldap2                2.1.30.dfsg-13.5 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libmagic1               4.21-4           File type determination library us
ii  libpcre3                7.3-2            Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpq5                  8.2.5-4          PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.4.2-2          SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8g-3         SSL shared libraries
ii  libuuid1                1.40.2-1         universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mime-support            3.39-1           MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  net-tools               1.60-19          The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  procps                  1:3.2.7-5        /proc file system utilities
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime

apache2.2-common recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information