Curious colour label behaviour

Not sure if I'd go so far as to describe this as a 'bug' but it had me beat for a while. I was trying to devise an appropriate workflow and was looking to use colour labels to help classify picture status (unclassified, retouch needed, delete, print etc) as noted by Peter Krough in his DAM book.
I picked titles for the first four colours but left the last, purple, without a status and edited the colour set and left purple blank.
Having done this if you now select a 'folder' to display, select a picture, press 8 to select green then press 8 again to de-select green what seems to happen is that the currently selected picture gets set to purple and filtering on purple selects all the pictures in the folder. Changing the selected picture gives the new selected picture a purple border.
Editing the colour set to put text such as 'unattributed colour' as the label makes things behave as you'd expect.
So the moral of the story, don't edit a colour set to have a blank description.
Curious !!

Colors are just a convenient way to search on the "label" field. If the label field is blank, and you search on purple which is also blank...

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