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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 07:50:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [3.13] Docs: use a Sphinx extension to eliminate excessive
 links (GH-145130) (#145574)

Docs: use a Sphinx extension to eliminate excessive links (GH-145130)
(cherry picked from commit 15f6479c415cc6cd219cd25c1d94bab17d720cbc)

Co-authored-by: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
---
 Doc/conf.py          | 1 +
 Doc/requirements.txt | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index fd7db014092..b15f31e7db1 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 
 # Skip if downstream redistributors haven't installed them
 _OPTIONAL_EXTENSIONS = (
+    'linklint.ext',
     'notfound.extension',
     'sphinxext.opengraph',
 )
diff --git a/Doc/requirements.txt b/Doc/requirements.txt
index d0107744ecb..536ae57e4ef 100644
--- a/Doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/Doc/requirements.txt
@@ -18,4 +18,6 @@ sphinx-notfound-page~=1.0.0
 # to install that as well.
 python-docs-theme>=2023.3.1,!=2023.7
 
+linklint
+
 -c constraints.txt