bug#69004: closed (Cannot open lzip-compressed info manuals)

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> Cannot open lzip-compressed info manuals
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> Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:49:59 +0000
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> Hello.
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> I'm using GNU Emacs 29.2 on a Gentoo Linux system.
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> On this system, all info manuals are compressed with lzip and have a .lz
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> When running M-x info and opening any info manual (e.g. the info manual
> for bash), I get error messages similar to the following one:
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> > Info file `bash' does not exist; consider installing it
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> In reality the info manual for bash is available on my system:
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> $ file /usr/share/info/bash.info.lz 
> /usr/share/info/bash.info.lz: lzip compressed data, version: 1
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> In info.el source code there is no instance of either "lzip" or "lz".
> In particular, there is no lzip-related entry in the Info-suffix-list
> variable definition.
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> In my opinion it would be nice to add support for lzip-compressed info
> manuals to M-x info.
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> > Cc: 69004@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:55:54 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> > > From: Francesco Turco <fturco@posteo.net>
> > > Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:49:59 +0000
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> > > I'm using GNU Emacs 29.2 on a Gentoo Linux system.
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> > > On this system, all info manuals are compressed with lzip and have a .lz
> > > suffix.
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> > Emacs doesn't (yet) support Info manuals compressed with lzip.
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> > > When running M-x info and opening any info manual (e.g. the info manual
> > > for bash), I get error messages similar to the following one:
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> > > > Info file `bash' does not exist; consider installing it
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> > > In reality the info manual for bash is available on my system:
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> > > $ file /usr/share/info/bash.info.lz 
> > > /usr/share/info/bash.info.lz: lzip compressed data, version: 1
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> > > In info.el source code there is no instance of either "lzip" or "lz".
> > > In particular, there is no lzip-related entry in the Info-suffix-list
> > > variable definition.
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> > > In my opinion it would be nice to add support for lzip-compressed info
> > > manuals to M-x info.
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> > Patches welcome to add lzip support to info.el.
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> I have now added that on master; closing.
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