e.g. see a recent build failures:
https://github.com/ente-io/photos-desktop/actions/runs/8996782367/job/24713793588
there was another one recently. both of these were on the Windows runner, in one
case the message was:
info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
in another case the issue manifested later
D:\a\photos-desktop\photos-desktop\web\node_modules\date-fns\formatISO\index.js:11
/**
SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:128:18)
at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1280:20)
but retrying fixed it, so I'm counting it as a broken package install.