Public bug reported: I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, so I'm asking for an opinion.
As far as I see lshw behaviour has changed since eoan. I suppose it was introduced by that commit: https://github.com/lyonel/lshw/commit/135a853c. In bionic it returns JSON dict, now in Eoan/Focal it returns list: root@bursting-satyr:~# lshw -json -quiet | head #Bionic { "id" : "bursting-satyr", "class" : "system", "claimed" : true, "description" : "Computer", "width" : 64, "capabilities" : { "smp" : "Symmetric Multi-Processing", "vsyscall32" : "32-bit processes" }, root@glad-sawfly:~# lshw -json -quiet | head #Eoan, Focal [ { "id" : "glad-sawfly", "class" : "system", "claimed" : true, "description" : "Computer", "width" : 64, "capabilities" : { "smp" : "Symmetric Multi-Processing", "vsyscall32" : "32-bit processes So my question is: is it an unintended side-effect of the fix or long-term format change? Thanks in advance. ** Affects: lshw (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1874244 Title: lshw top-level element is a list, not a dictionary since Eoan To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lshw/+bug/1874244/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
