The issue seems permanent, for the time being.
Running a more thorough strace (attached) has revealed that the download
is indeed handled by the /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-download binary,
which unfortunately refuses to work if invoked directly by shell, so
unfortunately I could not debug this particular process any further.
The issue seems permanent, for the time being. lxc/templates/ lxc-download binary,
Running a more thorough strace (attached) has revealed that the download
is indeed handled by the /usr/share/
which unfortunately refuses to work if invoked directly by shell, so
unfortunately I could not debug this particular process any further.