[Bug 1825000] Re: Add ability for mirrors to distinguish interactive and non-interactive apt runs

[Julian Andres Klode]

Note that there were some I think somewhat valid privacy concerns to
exposing the service name.

Maybe it's enough to know if apt ran as part of a systemd service, but
not which service, or we build a whitelist of services (or check if they
are inside /lib/systemd/system - so we do not send local service names).
Currently we do have a blacklist that matches user@ services.

Another approach was to send whether a tty is attached, but I believe
that's a bit less useful

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Title:
  Add ability for mirrors to distinguish interactive and non-interactive
  apt runs

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in apt source package in Eoan:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As part of a larger scale plan to manage traffic to the main archive
  servers it would be useful if apt could provide a facility for us to
  identify interactive vs. non-interactive traffic on the server side,
  ideally via a header of some kind.

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