Users might have blocked access for debian-sys-maint somehow, simply because they don't want the maintainer scripts to have access to the database. I don't think this is an invalid choice, so we might consider giving a warning instead of error in the specific case of access denied.
Users might have blocked access for debian-sys-maint somehow, simply because they don't want the maintainer scripts to have access to the database. I don't think this is an invalid choice, so we might consider giving a warning instead of error in the specific case of access denied.