[Bug 1874237] [NEW] "lshw -version" returns empty string on focal

[Nikolay Vinogradov]

Public bug reported:

Installed Ubuntu 20.04 focal beta (I think the same applies to Eoan as
well) lshw -version output is empty:

ubuntu at ob104:~$ sudo lshw -version

ubuntu at ob104:~$ sudo apt-cache show lshw
Package: lshw
Architecture: amd64
Version: 02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Ghe Rivero <ghe at debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 857
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Recommends: pciutils, usbutils
Filename: pool/main/l/lshw/lshw_02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 270368
MD5sum: b4a3a32f681241f9d6bd200d1b6f0be0
SHA1: ea0e3a645884f9cd65ea97c7fbf64cf308eb465c
SHA256: 2cfc5cee2f59f1e90facfca904d02dcab8b20e162a62fe9fac036c109a3e9953
Homepage: https://github.com/lyonel/lshw
Description-en: information about hardware configuration
 A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware
 configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory
 configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version
 and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86
 systems, on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work) and AMD64.
 .
 Information can be output in plain text, HTML or XML.
Description-md5: 5bbbb48f52cc6707ed44dbb6942d387b
Task: standard

ubuntu at ob104:~$ which lshw
/usr/bin/lshw
ubuntu at ob104:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/lshw
lshw: /usr/bin/lshw

** Affects: lshw (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  "lshw -version" returns empty string on focal

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Installed Ubuntu 20.04 focal beta (I think the same applies to Eoan as
  well) lshw -version output is empty:

  ubuntu at ob104:~$ sudo lshw -version

  ubuntu at ob104:~$ sudo apt-cache show lshw
  Package: lshw
  Architecture: amd64
  Version: 02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2
  Priority: standard
  Section: utils
  Origin: Ubuntu
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
  Original-Maintainer: Ghe Rivero <ghe at debian.org>
  Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
  Installed-Size: 857
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
  Recommends: pciutils, usbutils
  Filename: pool/main/l/lshw/lshw_02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
  Size: 270368
  MD5sum: b4a3a32f681241f9d6bd200d1b6f0be0
  SHA1: ea0e3a645884f9cd65ea97c7fbf64cf308eb465c
  SHA256: 2cfc5cee2f59f1e90facfca904d02dcab8b20e162a62fe9fac036c109a3e9953
  Homepage: https://github.com/lyonel/lshw
  Description-en: information about hardware configuration
   A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware
   configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory
   configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version
   and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86
   systems, on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work) and AMD64.
   .
   Information can be output in plain text, HTML or XML.
  Description-md5: 5bbbb48f52cc6707ed44dbb6942d387b
  Task: standard

  ubuntu at ob104:~$ which lshw
  /usr/bin/lshw
  ubuntu at ob104:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/lshw
  lshw: /usr/bin/lshw

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