From 867dc37822d3d1dcbd67e10487f1715f0d197b4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:07:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] remove link to the 'original package specification'; I doubt
 it's useful anymore (closes #22657)

---
 Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 0158e87100..0203e08141 100644
--- 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
-- 
2.50.1