"Robin H. Johnson" [off-list ref] writes:
Alternatively, publish byte-exact reproduction steps from the tags to
the tarballs, so that we can generate them locally for co-ordinated
release.
What I meant to say was that there is no byte-exact reproduction
steps. There is a build procedure but the design goal of the build
procedure for the doc tarballs does not include byte-exact
reproduction at all, as the doc tarballs are not considered as
sources. It's meant as a mere convenience for those who lack the
asciidoc(tor) toolchain, a semi-binary distribution.