"lshw -version" returns empty string on focal

Bug #1874237 reported by Nikolay Vinogradov
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Bug Description

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

ubuntu@ob104:~$ sudo lshw -version

ubuntu@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 <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Ghe Rivero <email address hidden>
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@ob104:~$ which lshw
/usr/bin/lshw
ubuntu@ob104:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/lshw
lshw: /usr/bin/lshw

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