Bug#929494: Please can we have DefaultType back

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Package: apache2
Version: 2.4.25-3+deb9u7

I have just perpetrated this:

<FilesMatch "^(?!.*(?:\\.tar|\\.crt|microcode|\\.jpeg|\\.png|\\.html)(?:\\.bz2|\\.gz|-gzip)?$)" >
  ForceType text/plain
</FilesMatch>

which is just awful.  This is an insane way to spell this, and it also
means I have to repeat all of the file extensions which my system
might work with, rather than using the handy list in mime.types.

My system is a CI system which generates largely textual logfiles,
whose filenames do not, and should not, generally end in .txt.  So in
my context, a default file type is absolutely correct.  It ought to be
supported.

(And type-sniffing is definitely wrong here.)

I understand that DefaultType was previously needed basically
everywhere, but is now not usually recommended.  That's fine.  I don't
mind if I have to write ReallyDefaultTypeIPromiseIKnowWhatImDoing.

Thanks,
Ian.    

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