Hi David - thanks for your work on squeak-vm.
(hint about that "loud" styling: posts done directly (not via email) can be updated later -> click on the ellipsis)
I appreciate your incorporating patches from the Debian packaging, and apologize for not having passed them upstream myself as is arguably my duty..
It is generally helpful that you as upstream release known stable code as a tarball - that eases work for redistributors like Debian.
This issue is not, however, about easing access to _latest_ code for the squeak-vm project. Instead, it is about easing access to intermediary snapshots _other_ than latest code.
Therefore this issue is orthogonal to availability of tarball for squeak-vm (unless you mean to issue multiple tarballs for various points of development).