It is Debian Policy that www-data is the Apache user and packages may rely on that. You're of course free to change it, but it's up to you to change other paths owned by www-data aswell (a simple find command will do that for you). 'Detecting' what the Apache user is in every package that ships a web app seems error-prone. Setting the dir world-writable is obviously not desirable.
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