I don't think this should be called a deprecation, since exposing the new module in 1.17.0 was an oversight in the first place. Hopefully gh-14360 will prevent these kind of issues in the future.

release note needed, but cannot create until the PR is opened

I noticed that too, always needs an extra commit after opening PR, pretty odd.

I don't think this should be called a deprecation, since exposing the new module in 1.17.0 was an oversight in the first place.

agreed. I'd be in favor of backporting this to 1.17.x

the CircleCI failure is related

LGTM, and since @bashtage approved of removing this in gh-14359 I'll push the green button. Thanks @mattip

@charris okay to backport this to 1.17.x? I think that'd be helpful, to not have a documented public-looking function in the latest 1.17.x release.

@rgommers I'm OK with that. I'd like to get all the fixes and changes to the new random module into 1.17. This is our shaking out period.