Remove obsolete mentions of the compress program and .Z archives.

Packaging uses the shutil.make_archive function copied from distutils,
which does not support compress.  There is no test to check that
“bdist --format whatever” works, so this slipped by.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst b/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst
index 3f3e790..b1e5e93 100644
--- a/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst
+++ b/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ The available formats for built distributions are:
 | ``gztar``   | gzipped tar file             | (1),(3) |
 |             | (:file:`.tar.gz`)            |         |
 +-------------+------------------------------+---------+
-| ``ztar``    | compressed tar file          | \(3)    |
-|             | (:file:`.tar.Z`)             |         |
-+-------------+------------------------------+---------+
 | ``tar``     | tar file (:file:`.tar`)      | \(3)    |
 +-------------+------------------------------+---------+
 | ``zip``     | zip file (:file:`.zip`)      | (2),(4) |
@@ -98,8 +95,8 @@ Notes:
    default on Windows
 
 (3)
-   requires external utilities: :program:`tar` and possibly one of :program:`gzip`,
-   :program:`bzip2`, or :program:`compress`
+   requires external utilities: :program:`tar` and possibly one of :program:`gzip`
+   or :program:`bzip2`
 
 (4)
    requires either external :program:`zip` utility or :mod:`zipfile` module (part
@@ -109,14 +106,14 @@ You don't have to use the :command:`bdist` command with the :option:`--formats`
 option; you can also use the command that directly implements the format you're
 interested in.  Some of these :command:`bdist` "sub-commands" actually generate
 several similar formats; for instance, the :command:`bdist_dumb` command
-generates all the "dumb" archive formats (``tar``, ``ztar``, ``gztar``, and
+generates all the "dumb" archive formats (``tar``, ``gztar``, and
 ``zip``).  The :command:`bdist` sub-commands, and the formats generated by
 each, are:
 
 +--------------------------+-----------------------+
 | Command                  | Formats               |
 +==========================+=======================+
-| :command:`bdist_dumb`    | tar, ztar, gztar, zip |
+| :command:`bdist_dumb`    | tar, gztar, zip       |
 +--------------------------+-----------------------+
 | :command:`bdist_wininst` | wininst               |
 +--------------------------+-----------------------+
diff --git a/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst b/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst
index 0cd4df3..2cedc15 100644
--- a/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst
+++ b/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ to create a gzipped tarball and a zip file.  The available formats are:
 | ``bztar`` | bzip2'ed tar file       |         |
 |           | (:file:`.tar.bz2`)      |         |
 +-----------+-------------------------+---------+
-| ``ztar``  | compressed tar file     | \(4)    |
-|           | (:file:`.tar.Z`)        |         |
-+-----------+-------------------------+---------+
 | ``tar``   | tar file (:file:`.tar`) |         |
 +-----------+-------------------------+---------+
 
@@ -50,11 +47,7 @@ Notes:
    requires either external :program:`zip` utility or :mod:`zipfile` module (part
    of the standard Python library since Python 1.6)
 
-(4)
-   requires the :program:`compress` program. Notice that this format is now
-   pending for deprecation and will be removed in the future versions of Python.
-
-When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar``, ``ztar`` or
+When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar`` or
 ``tar``) under Unix, you can specify the ``owner`` and ``group`` names
 that will be set for each member of the archive.