See this extract from the change log:

lshw (02.18-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload with permission of the maintainer.
  * New upstream release.  Closes: #823639, #756921, #746616, #758550,
    #767023.
    - Refresh patches for unfortunate new upstream tarball layout.
    - debian/patches/fat-inspection.patch, debian/patches/smbios-noscan.patch:
      drop, fixed upstream.
    - Drop debian/patches/sparc.patch: no longer applies cleanly, and is
      incorrect (double header inclusion).
  * debian/patches/Avoid-crash-in-scan_dmi_sysfs-when-running-as-non-ro.patch:
    patch taken from Ubuntu to fix an upstream regression when running as
    non-root; thanks to dann frazier <[email protected]>
  * debian/patches/fix-width-handling.patch: Fix regression in detecting
    platform width.

 -- Steve Langasek <[email protected]>  Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:42:04 -0700

It looks like the issue was fixed without any reference to this bug
report just a couple of months after the bug report was created.

Benjamin, I'll let you mark as "Fix released" if you're happy to close
your bug report.

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