Bug#492463: apache2.2-common: Please enable mod_deflate by default

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

Package: apache2.2-common
Version: 2.2.9-6
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Please consider enabling mod_deflate by default. For most sites, this is
a reasonable default in that it conserves bandwidth without eating undue
amounts of CPU (only HTML and the likes is compressed -- in today's
AJAX-heavy world you may want to add application/javascript to the
default list, though :-) ) and makes people's pages load a lot faster.
There shouldn't be many possible negative side effects either, possibly
excluding sites with reverse proxies that can't grok content
negotiation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.4
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on:
pn  apache2-utils          <none>            (no description available)
pn  libapr1                <none>            (no description available)
pn  libaprutil1            <none>            (no description available)
ii  libc6                  2.7-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1              4.24-2            File type determination library us
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-10.1       SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base               3.2-13            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mime-support           3.44-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  net-tools              1.60-19           The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  procps                 1:3.2.7-8         /proc file system utilities
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

apache2.2-common recommends no packages.