Etienne Prud’homme <e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com> writes:

> By the way, are tarballs
> automatically generated?  If not, would it be hard to implement?

They are not automatically built.  Unfortunately, there is manual work
(usually fixes in the ChangeLog files, updating etc/AUTHORS which often
involves updating admin/authors.el) to be done for each tarball.

Cheers,
Nico