I think I've GOT IT! The "Cannot open (null) for reading" bug!!!
Robert Collins
rbcollins@cygwin.com
Sat Mar 8 22:54:00 GMT 2003
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:41, Max Bowsher wrote:
> I traced it to this curious condition:
>
> pkg.desired.sourcePackage() == false &&
> pkg.desired.sourcePackage().picked() == true
>
> How? Well, it turns out that the defaultversion placeholder object used,
> amongst other circumstances, when a package is has no source package, is
> returning *true* to picked()!
>
> Robert, how do you think this should be fixed?
Offhand, without referencing the source - make the defaultversion return
false to picked().
Rob
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