Comment 11 for bug 1977630

I verified the fix using systemd-container 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 from jammy-proposed:

nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy systemd-container
systemd-container:
  Installed: 249.11-0ubuntu3.10
  Candidate: 249.11-0ubuntu3.10
  Version table:
 *** 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     249.11-0ubuntu3.9 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
     249.11-0ubuntu3.7 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
     249.11-0ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ machinectl pull-tar --verify=no https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz test
Enqueued transfer job 1. Press C-c to continue download in background.
Pulling 'https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz', saving as 'test'.
Downloading 390.1M for https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz.
HTTP request to https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.nspawn failed with code 404.
Settings file could not be retrieved, proceeding without.
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Download of https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz complete.
Created new local image 'test'.
Operation completed successfully.
Exiting.