I was creating a debian container via lxc shortly after installing lxc and lxc-templates and expected it to succeed, but instead I received the error message that debootstrap was not found. This is using release-1.4, with the following versions:

[ebuild R ] app-emulation/lxc-3.2.1.20191211::core-kit USE="pam python seccomp templates -apparmor -examples (-selinux)" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/lxc-templates-3.0.4::core-kit 0 KiB