Add a NEWS.Debian entry about update-smart-drivedb

Document the removal of the update-smart-drivedb feature in
NEWS.Debian.

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+smartmontools (6.4+svn4214-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  Previous versions of the smartmontools package included a tool
+  update-smart-drivedb which downloaded updated drive definitions
+  from the smartmontools website and stored them at
+
+      /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h
+
+  This tool did not download the definitions in a secure manner and
+  so the feature has been removed in this version.  Future drive DB
+  updates will be propagated via normal Debian package updates,
+  including backports.
+
+  If you already have a drivedb.h file at that location, smartctl
+  will continue to use it.
+
+ -- Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>  Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:19:47 +0000
+
 smartmontools (5.37-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   Prior to 5.37 temperature logging was enabled per default on SCSI disks, as