Downloads page should have a source tarball

[erciccione]

Issue originally created by @asymptotically

This issue was created on gitlab and then migrated here. Only the original post was migrated, not the comments. Please take a look at the discussions on the original Gitlab issue before commenting here: https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/-/issues/993

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It would be nice if the website had a tarball of the Monero source instead of directing users to GitHub. The tarballs and zips on GitHub release pages do not include submodules and cannot be used.

[00-matt]

We've always had a source tarball. It's used by the auto-updater when you build from source (instead of using a release). Here are the list of current tarballs in the downloads.getmonero.org/source/ directory -

monero-gui-source-v0.11.0.0.tar.bz2
monero-gui-source-v0.15.0.1.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.11.0.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.11.1.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.12.0.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.12.3.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.13.0.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.13.0.1.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.13.0.2.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.13.0.4.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.14.0.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.14.0.2.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.14.1.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.14.1.2.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.15.0.0.tar.bz2
monero-source-v0.15.0.1.tar.bz2
-- https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/-/issues/993#note_7760

I think it would be easy enough to add a link to these on the download page, but their checksums are not included in the signed hashes.txt file.