The chicken or the egg? -or- Tastes great or less filling?

I'm going to be making an intermediate package update tomorrow/later today. Please do at least some rudimentary testing of it. For release it is my intention to rebytecompile and repackage all the packaged lisp prior to having someone cons up the SUMO tarball (the ancient Gnus 5.4 package dies, there is no reason to keep it around any more). If there are any dissenting opinions that this isn't the Right Thing to do, please let me know now. Thanks. I expect to have core distribution tarballs and preliminary lisp package tarballs out sometime before midnight and after some testing make the 'net announcement sometime later this week depending upon further input from Jason.