Debian's Apache1 package doesn't quite do what I need. I have been building my own and overwriting the files from the Debian package, but that can get annoying. So I hacked my changes into the Debian source package and built real .debs. I figure they might be useful to others.
The main changes are to get rid of -lpthread (needed by mod_perl) and -lexpat and to add mod_deflate. To enable mod_deflate make sure your /etc/apache/modules.conf file has:

AddModule mod_deflate.c

And in your httpd.conf add:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    DeflateEnable           on
    DeflateMinLength        1024
    DeflateCompLevel        8
    DeflateProxied          on
    DeflateDisableRange     "MSIE 4."
    DeflateVary             on
    DeflateTypes            text/css
    DeflateTypes            text/plain
    DeflateTypes            text/rtf
    DeflateTypes            text/xml
    DeflateTypes            text/javascript
    DeflateTypes            image/vnd.dwg
    DeflateTypes            image/vnd.dxf
    DeflateTypes            application/msword
    DeflateTypes            application/vnd.hp-HPGL
    DeflateTypes            application/vnd.ms-access
    DeflateTypes            application/vnd.ms-excel
    DeflateTypes            application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
    DeflateTypes            application/vnd.ms-project
    DeflateTypes            application/vnd.visio
    DeflateTypes            application/x-javascript
</IfModule>