apt-transport-https has become a dummy package as of Debian 10/Ubuntu 18.04.

[dhs-rec]

Overview

Remove apt-transport-https from to-be-installed packages for Debian >= 10 and Ubuntu >= 18.04, since that functionality has been moved into the main apt package and apt-transport-https became a dummy package.

[wohali]

Hey @dhs-rec , thanks for the PR! 🦄 🔢 🏅

Unfortunately, this isn't completely accurate for Xenial.

It is true that the ubuntu-standard Xenial package depends on apt-transport-https, but that is not guaranteed to be installed in an Ubuntu install. Critically, it's not installed in the Docker image by default:

$ docker run -it ubuntu:xenial
root@077fdc4ee684:/# apt update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages [1116 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/restricted amd64 Packages [12.7 kB]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages [627 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse amd64 Packages [6677 B]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1558 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/restricted amd64 Packages [14.1 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages [9827 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages [176 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [1483 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted amd64 Packages [13.1 kB]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1031 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages [19.7 kB]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages [7942 B]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [8807 B]
Fetched 16.5 MB in 2s (6814 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
6 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
# dpkg -l apt-transport-https
dpkg-query: no packages found matching apt-transport-https

If you can remove the change for Xenial (but leave it for buster & bionic) I'll be happy to merge this.

[wohali]

Whoops, I just realized you said for bionic and focal, not xenial. Taking this !

[wohali]

Thanks again for your contribution to CouchDB!