"contract binary not set. Can't deploy new instance." when deploying simple contract

contract JudgeSubscriber {
    function judgeCallback(bytes32 uuid, address liar) external;
}

This interface throws contract binary not set. Can't deploy new instance. when deployed with deployer.deploy(JudgeSubscriber);

More info from @elenadimitrova from Gitter who reproduced it:

I can reproduce however I do get random failures on truffle migrate --reset sometimes it succeeds in deploying and sometimes it fails with contract binary not set and sometimes it gets stuck and testrpc emits numerous eth_getFilterChanges calls

[DavidBurela]

During the last 2 weeks I have come across this error twice, and both times resolved it by doing a Google search and this issue comes up with the answer:

Check that you haven’t accidentally made your class abstract by having a method you didn’t implement

Maybe the error message should be updated to give a hint towards that.

[SeanAvery]

Similar issue migrating ERC20 token standard contract.

contract ERC20Events {
    event Transfer(address indexed from, address indexed to, uint value);
    event Approval( address indexed owner, address indexed spender, uint value);
}

contract ERC20Stateless {
    function totalSupply() constant returns (uint supply);
    function balanceOf( address who ) constant returns (uint value);
    function allowance(address owner, address spender) constant returns (uint _allowance);
}
contract ERC20Stateful {
    function transfer( address to, uint value) returns (bool ok);
    function transferFrom( address from, address to, uint value) returns (bool ok);
    function approve(address spender, uint value) returns (bool ok);
}

contract ERC20 is ERC20Stateless, ERC20Stateful, ERC20Events {}

Yes, this an “abstract” contract as the methods are not implemented. I have attempted to add my Token.sol implementation onto the same file where the ERC20 standard is implemented; However, am still getting contract binary is not set error.

Has anyone had success migrating the ERC20 contract?