[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#867024: Bug#867024: Remove 'gzip_disable "msie6"; ' directive in nginx default config file

[Christos Trochalakis]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 03:17:03PM +0200, Benoît SÉRIE wrote:
>Package: nginx-common
>Version: 1.13.1-2
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>In the default configuration file for nginx.conf, we still see:
>
>    gzip_disable "msie6";
>
>As MS IE6 is really deprecated[1], I propose to remove completely this
>directive for Debian Buster. Upstream example config file doesn't have
>it.
>
>[1]: http://caniuse.com/usage-table (0.02%)
>

Hello, you are right, we can probably safely drop it. This was a bug
in early IE6 versions that was fixed in later updates.

We will include a patch in the next upload.