If a variant cannot be selected because there are no variants, mentio…

[mathjeff]

…n that

instead of saying that every variant has no attributes

Fixes: #28970

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[ov7a]

Thank you for your contribution!

This PR has a valid DCO and tests. The relevant team for this area will confirm the design of the implementation choices.

[big-guy]

@tresat will take a look

[gitstream-cm]

⚠️ 'There are new TODOs present in this change. Should any be removed?'

[tresat]

Thanks for submitting this @mathjeff! I think this is a good clarifying change to a possibly very confusing scenario.

I made some adjustments to the way the failure is created that were necessary to make the test you submitted pass, and made some other minor changes. Assuming CI doesn't find any issues, I'll merge this for Gradle 8.9.

[mathjeff]

Thanks!

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📊 Changes by Platform: this PR is 88% new code

3 platforms were affected

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Platform	Added Lines	% of Total Line Changes	Deleted Lines	% of Total Line Changes	Files Changed	% of Total Files Changed
null	10	6%	4	2%	2	25%
software	143	81%	16	9%	5	63%
native	2	1%	1	1%	1	13%

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