[3.7] bpo-36797: Reduce levels of indirection in outdated distutils docs (GH-13462)

[miss-islington]

(cherry picked from commit e788057)

Co-authored-by: Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com

https://bugs.python.org/issue36797

[ncoghlan]

@jaraco Only the fact that any existing unqualified deep links will end up somewhere more useful than a 404 page.

@ewdurbin Do we have any page level metrics for docs.python.org that could potentially let us be more ruthless in pruning apparently unreferenced pages?

[ewdurbin]

@ewdurbin Do we have any page level metrics for docs.python.org that could potentially let us be more ruthless in pruning apparently unreferenced pages?

Best thing we have is raw access logs from CDN edge. The question is how to consume them.

[ncoghlan]

@ewdurbin It's one of those things that bugs me a bit, as I find it hard to believe this is a novel problem to face, but my attempts to find any discussions of good ways to go about it don't turn up anything useful :P

[miss-islington]

@ncoghlan: Status check is done, and it's a success ✅ .