** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
+ In Bionic and Xenial we have a manpage for update-smart-drivedb script
+ but it is not available. This script is quite important to users because
+ it allows them to update the file which contains information about
+ hardware, and this data is constantly updated, sometimes if it is not
+ updated you cannot support some specific hardware.
+ 
+ The update-smart-drivedb script was removed in the past because of some
+ security concerns regarding the update process. After sometime it was
+ re-introduced because upstream implemented GPG verification support
+ (which is available in Focal). The proposed fix re-introduce the new
+ version of this script with a GPG verification support in Bionic and
+ Xenial.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+ $ lxc launch ubuntu-daily:bionic smartmontools-bionic
+ $ lxc shell smartmontools-bionic
+ # apt update && apt upgrade -y
+ # apt install -y smartmontools
+ # man update-smart-drivedb
+ # update-smart-drivedb
+ update-smart-drivedb: command not found
+ 
+ The same applies to Xenial.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+ The chance of a regression is minimal. This script was not available
+ previously.
+ 
+ [Original Description]
+ 
  manpage
-     manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/update-smart-drivedb.8.html
+     manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/update-smart-drivedb.8.html
  says
-     Provided by: smartmontools_6.4+svn4214-1_amd64
+     Provided by: smartmontools_6.4+svn4214-1_amd64
  but
  invoking it fails with
-     ~$ update-smart-drivedb
-     update-smart-drivedb: command not found
+     ~$ update-smart-drivedb
+     update-smart-drivedb: command not found

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