Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/329#issuecomment-39655957
We should allow the empty partitions, this was intentional behavior. It's
used quite a bit in our unit tests for example. Users who want fewer partitions
can always check the size of the Seq themselves.
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