From 9b104e340c9d030a9c725591d1ef6eda3dfc3c05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 15:52:49 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Remove redundant check_pyspecific task

---
 run_release.py | 21 ---------------------
 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/run_release.py b/run_release.py
index b7cfe0e3..4bec1733 100755
--- a/run_release.py
+++ b/run_release.py
@@ -538,25 +538,6 @@ def run_autoconf(db: ReleaseShelf) -> None:
     )
 
 
-def check_pyspecific(db: ReleaseShelf) -> None:
-    with open(
-        db["git_repo"] / "Doc" / "tools" / "extensions" / "pyspecific.py"
-    ) as pyspecific:
-        for line in pyspecific:
-            if "SOURCE_URI =" in line:
-                break
-    expected_branch = db["release"].branch
-    expected = (
-        f"SOURCE_URI = 'https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/{expected_branch}/%s'"
-    )
-    if expected != line.strip():
-        raise ReleaseException(
-            f"SOURCE_URI is incorrect (it needs changing before beta 1):\n"
-            f"expected: {expected}\n"
-            f"got     : {line.strip()}"
-        )
-
-
 def bump_version(db: ReleaseShelf) -> None:
     with cd(db["git_repo"]):
         release_mod.bump(db["release"])
@@ -1453,8 +1434,6 @@ def _api_key(api_key: str) -> str:
         Task(check_cpython_repo_is_clean, "Checking CPython repository is clean"),
         Task(run_autoconf, "Running autoconf"),
         Task(check_cpython_repo_is_clean, "Checking CPython repository is clean"),
-        Task(check_pyspecific, "Checking pyspecific"),
-        Task(check_cpython_repo_is_clean, "Checking CPython repository is clean"),
         Task(create_tag, "Create tag"),
         Task(push_to_local_fork, "Push new tags and branches to private fork"),
         Task(start_build_release, "Start the build-release workflow"),