Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:37:04 -0600
>> 
>> When Emacs was compiled with compress-install, using submit-emacs-patch gives an error because it
>> search for maintainer address in file.el instead file.el.gz. 
>
> Thanks, but this lacks details, IMO.  AFAIU, submit-emacs-patch gleans
> source file names from the patch file you are about to submit, and it
> expands each file name in the patch against source-directory, before
> looking them up for their maintainers.  In the source tree (if you
> still have it around) the files are not compressed.  OTOH, if your
> patch names files by their absolute file name (in which case
> source-directory is not used), and the files are compressed in the
> installation tree, then how did you produce the patch from compressed
> files in the first place in a way that names the files without the .gz
> extensions?
>
> IOW, please show an example of a patch that could be used to reproduce
> this issue and the recipe to reproduce, and please tell whether you do
> or don't have the Emacs source tree pointed to by source-directory.
> Or maybe I'm missing something obvious, in which case please point out
> what I missed.

I would also be interested in the specific error being raised.  It might
be that the following check could suffice to fix the issue: