This was fixed in 2.9, but is back again in 2.10. Please add a test to the build infrastructure to make sure they are not shipped empty :-).
makelgc.sh checks for the files required to generate langcover.txt and unicover.txt. If they are not present nothing is generated, so we won't forget ever again.
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