From 637c0f815bcb9ba7c5232a517415c8f3e2e5ef04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Leslie Porter <brett@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:42:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix bug in compareTo when metadata.version is null

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk@169306 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../metadata/ReleaseArtifactMetadata.java         | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/metadata/ReleaseArtifactMetadata.java b/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/metadata/ReleaseArtifactMetadata.java
index 06067f3c80..2da6516ba0 100644
--- a/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/metadata/ReleaseArtifactMetadata.java
+++ b/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/metadata/ReleaseArtifactMetadata.java
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ public class ReleaseArtifactMetadata
     {
         ReleaseArtifactMetadata metadata = (ReleaseArtifactMetadata) o;
 
+        // TODO: we need some more complicated version comparison
         if ( version == null )
         {
             if ( metadata.version == null )
@@ -58,9 +59,17 @@ public class ReleaseArtifactMetadata
                 return -1;
             }
         }
-
-        // TODO: we need some more complicated version comparison
-        return version.compareTo( metadata.version );
+        else
+        {
+            if ( metadata.version == null )
+            {
+                return 1;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                return version.compareTo( metadata.version );
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     public boolean newerThanFile( File file )