Bug#879755: debootstrap fails with current sid without apt-transport-https and https URLs

[Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>]

[ +jak +deity ]

On 2017-10-25 12:38, Petr Cech wrote:
> apt 1.6~alpha removed binary package apt-transport-https and therefor
> debootstrap with a https URL fails with dependency error:
>
> I: Checking component main on https://deb.debian.org/debian...
> E: Couldn't find these debs: apt-transport-https
>
> Following patch fixes it for current sid distribution.
>
> --- sid.orig    2017-10-25 12:31:16.729013116 +0200
> +++ sid 2017-10-25 12:31:29.789138601 +0200
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
>
>         case $MIRRORS in
>             https://*)
> -               base="$base apt-transport-https ca-certificates"
> +               base="$base ca-certificates"
>                 ;;
>         esac
>  }

Can we please have a transitional package? I don't think it's 
particularly helpful to try and patch all debootstraps out there to 
install properly over https if we can avoid it by having an empty 
transitional package for now.

Kind regards and thanks
Philipp Kern