remove link to the 'original package specification'; I doubt it's useful anymore...

diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 0158e871005c048853ffafe777e0a1a0ad2aab48..0203e0814175f502cee7aa4e5b592ad542882472 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -695,9 +695,7 @@ hierarchical naming of modules. To help organize modules and provide a
 hierarchy in naming, Python has a concept of packages. A package can contain
 other packages and modules while modules cannot contain other modules or
 packages. From a file system perspective, packages are directories and modules
-are files. The original `specification for packages
-<http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html>`_ is still available to read,
-although minor details have changed since the writing of that document.
+are files.
 
 .. index::
     single: sys.modules