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diff --git a/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst b/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst
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@@ -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.