gh-85454: Remove links from historical mentions of distutils (GH-95192)

5 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
index 24fc39b..9b28dbc 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ packages, which made administering a Python installation something of  a chore.
 
 The SIG for distribution utilities, shepherded by Greg Ward, has created the
 Distutils, a system to make package installation much easier.  They form the
-:mod:`distutils` package, a new part of Python's standard library. In the best
+``distutils`` package, a new part of Python's standard library. In the best
 case, installing a Python module from source will require the same steps: first
 you simply mean unpack the tarball or zip archive, and the run "``python
 setup.py install``".  The platform will be automatically detected, the compiler
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 9dd849f..31f2ea8 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ information:
   such as "3.2".
 
 It also provides access to the paths and variables corresponding to one of
-seven named schemes used by :mod:`distutils`.  Those include *posix_prefix*,
+seven named schemes used by ``distutils``.  Those include *posix_prefix*,
 *posix_home*, *posix_user*, *nt*, *nt_user*, *os2*, *os2_home*:
 
 * :func:`~sysconfig.get_paths` makes a dictionary containing installation paths
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index 1defee4..537007b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ Both the ``build`` and ``build_ext`` commands now accept a ``-j`` option to
 enable parallel building of extension modules.
 (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`5309`.)
 
-The :mod:`distutils` module now supports ``xz`` compression, and can be
+The ``distutils`` module now supports ``xz`` compression, and can be
 enabled by passing ``xztar`` as an argument to ``bdist --format``.
 (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`16314`.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index e54475f..a587086 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ distutils
 ---------
 
 The ``default_format`` attribute has been removed from
-:class:`distutils.command.sdist.sdist` and the ``formats``
+``distutils.command.sdist.sdist`` and the ``formats``
 attribute defaults to ``['gztar']``. Although not anticipated,
 any code relying on the presence of ``default_format`` may
 need to be adapted. See :issue:`27819` for more details.
@@ -1986,7 +1986,7 @@ distutils
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
 The undocumented ``extra_path`` argument to the
-:class:`~distutils.Distribution` constructor is now considered deprecated
+``distutils.Distribution`` constructor is now considered deprecated
 and will raise a warning if set.   Support for this parameter will be
 removed in a future Python release.  See :issue:`27919` for details.
 
@@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ Changes in the Python API
   accepting additional keyword arguments will need to adjust their calls to
   :meth:`type.__new__` (whether direct or via :class:`super`) accordingly.
 
-* In :class:`distutils.command.sdist.sdist`, the ``default_format``
+* In ``distutils.command.sdist.sdist``, the ``default_format``
   attribute has been removed and is no longer honored. Instead, the
   gzipped tarfile format is the default on all platforms and no
   platform-specific selection is made.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 68901fa..fd99682 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@ Other CPython Implementation Changes
   variables were defined.  Previously, the order was undefined.
   (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`32690`.)
 
-* The :mod:`distutils` ``upload`` command no longer tries to change CR
+* The ``distutils`` ``upload`` command no longer tries to change CR
   end-of-line characters to CRLF.  This fixes a corruption issue with sdists
   that ended with a byte equivalent to CR.
   (Contributed by Bo Bayles in :issue:`32304`.)
@@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ The following features and APIs have been removed from Python 3.7:
   :func:`ssl.wrap_socket` or :class:`ssl.SSLContext`.
   (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`32951`.)
 
-* The unused :mod:`distutils` ``install_misc`` command has been removed.
+* The unused ``distutils`` ``install_misc`` command has been removed.
   (Contributed by Eric N. Vander Weele in :issue:`29218`.)