No. It happens rarely and without notice. It happens with both elpa and melpa repos.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, 4:37 pm Lars Ingebrigtsen, <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
Compro Prasad <comproprasad@gmail.com> writes:

>  > Do you have a recipe for reproducing this issue?  Or does it happen
>  > only sporadically?  Can you reproduce it under "emacs -Q"?
>  >
>
> It also happens with emacs -Q as a fresh installation of a package causes this
> issue. This might be due to some network issue. Currently I have a helper
> function to fix this by checking for empty .el files and re installing them after
> removing.

OK; reopening.

But do you have a step-by-step recipe to reproduce the problem?

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