I've just pushed this: maint: once again distribute .tar.gz files * configure.ac: Reenable distribution of gzip-compressed tarballs, to help reduce the size of the Guix seed, as discussed at https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-02/msg00042.html and https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00013.html * NEWS (Release): Mention this. Requested by Nicolas Boos