does this affect what goes into the build products when we release?

The docs look fine. Is it there to maintain links? Or maybe archived links instead of returning a 404?

The sdist actually contains 2 copies of the examples, as the tgz (or probably the distutils archiver) doesn't keep mpl_examples as a symlink.
Other than that, I don't think anything changes.

This will need a deprecation note then is case down-stream consumers are expecting this directory.

Not sure how you want to word this, can you directly push to the PR?

This is the second time you have removed this symlink...#9708 🐑

nvm, I can't read, that symlink was in doc, not in lib.

@sandrotosi@QuLogic Can you verify this won't mess up debian and fedora packaging?

We don't install it, and currently don't even build the docs, so I'm not sure it's really needed here.

thanks@tacaswell for checking with the distro packagers! yes this should be fine for debian (you plan on keep distributing theexamples/ dir in the tarballs right?)

@sandrotosi Yes