Bug#674142: make it possible to disable ssl compression in apache2 mod_ssl

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Wednesday 06 June 2012, Arno Töll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 23.05.2012 12:17, Bjoern Jacke wrote:
> > Please consider to add the patch from
> > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53219 to the
> > Debian package.
> 
> as you might have noticed Stefan was committing your patch
> upstream. Thus, it might be included in upcoming releases for the
> 2.4 branch and hence also in Debian. It may also be backported to
> the 2.2 series, but chances are this comes too late for Wheezy.
> 
> I personally wouldn't mind to include it for Wheezy as a Debian
> patch, but I'd let that up to Stefan to decide as there are some
> more changes in trunk which could be included into Wheezy if we're
> freezing before 2.2.23 is released.

I don't like to add config directives that are not in an upstream 
release (or at least have been committed to the upstream stable 
branch). If the upstream syntax changes until it is released, the 
mismatch creates a headache for supporters.

Unfortunately, there is currently not much momentum at upstream for 
2.2.23.

> > Maybe it is possible to get this even in Squeeze as it doesn't
> > change any default setting?
> 
> I don't think so. Whether or not this is changing the default
> behavior, it is still an invasive change we are not considering
> for a stable release.