In addition to comment #18 that explains why the autopkgtests failures are unrelated, I triggered re-runs with debootstrap package in -updates, which hits the same errors.
Thus confirming this is not a regression with debootstrap in -proposed. cheers, Mauricio pbuilder/bionic https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/p/pbuilder/bionic/amd64 0.229.1 debootstrap/1.0.95ubuntu0.6 2020-07-28 13:16:37 UTC 0h 03m 04s mfo fail 0.229.1 debootstrap/1.0.95ubuntu0.7 2020-07-27 18:11:40 UTC 0h 16m 09s - fail sbuild/bionic https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/s/sbuild/bionic/amd64 0.75.0-1ubuntu1 debootstrap/1.0.95ubuntu0.6 2020-07-28 13:17:32 UTC 0h 03m 43s mfo fail 0.75.0-1ubuntu1 debootstrap/1.0.95ubuntu0.7 2020-07-27 18:11:21 UTC 0h 13m 29s - fail sbuild/focal https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/s/sbuild/focal/amd64 0.79.0-1ubuntu1 debootstrap/1.0.118ubuntu1.1 2020-07-28 13:17:29 UTC 0h 03m 04s mfo fail 0.79.0-1ubuntu1 debootstrap/1.0.118ubuntu1.2 2020-07-27 18:16:24 UTC 0h 05m 15s - fail livecd-rootfs/focal https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/livecd-rootfs/focal/amd64 2.664.4 debootstrap/1.0.118ubuntu1.1 2020-07-28 13:39:58 UTC 0h 25m 42s mfo fail 2.664.4 debootstrap/1.0.118ubuntu1.2 2020-07-27 18:34:05 UTC 0h 37m 23s - fail -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772556 Title: d-i netinstall fails due to missing apt-transport-https package To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debootstrap/+bug/1772556/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs