On Sunday, 26 November 2023 12:39:09 PM AEDT Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Nevertheless, do you think it would possible to adapt it to check
> whether update-smart-drivedb is executable and if not fall back to the
> old code?
> 
> Background is that at the university cluster I administrate we have set
> dpkg-statoverrides for various "code downloader" commands like update-
> smart-drivedb, update-ieee-data or update-pciids, which removes their
> executeable bit, so that they're at least not accidentally run.
> 
> Would be nice if it could be kept that way.

Done: 

  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/smartmontools/-/commit/625f38bc

Thanks for suggestion and feedback.

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