Merge pull request #17846 from meeseeksmachine/auto-backport-of-pr-17844-on-v3.3.x

timhoffm · web-flow · commit 5354b70830ac · 2020-07-06T10:46:32.000+02:00
Backport PR #17844 on branch v3.3.x (Explain why Qt4 backends are deprecated)
diff --git a/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_3.3.0/deprecations.rst b/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_3.3.0/deprecations.rst
@@ -445,7 +445,9 @@ This method is deprecated.  Use the ``GridSpec.nrows``, ``GridSpec.ncols``,
 
 Qt4-based backends
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-The qt4agg and qt4cairo backends are deprecated.
+The qt4agg and qt4cairo backends are deprecated. Qt4 has reached its
+end-of-life in 2015 and there are no releases for recent versions of Python.
+Please consider switching to Qt5.
 
 *fontdict* and *minor* parameters of `.Axes.set_xticklabels` and `.Axes.set_yticklabels` will become keyword-only
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