From 7d797b7dbfc07915c421c91a007e29ea7467bdc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <ronny.pfannschmidt@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:12:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add a note about the deprecation of the pytest_namespace hook

---
 _pytest/hookspec.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_pytest/hookspec.py b/_pytest/hookspec.py
index 403f823a0..917632669 100644
--- a/_pytest/hookspec.py
+++ b/_pytest/hookspec.py
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ def pytest_addhooks(pluginmanager):
 
 @hookspec(historic=True)
 def pytest_namespace():
-    """return dict of name->object to be made globally available in
+    """
+    DEPRECATED: this hook causes direct monkeypatching on pytest, its use is strongly discouraged
+    return dict of name->object to be made globally available in
     the pytest namespace.  This hook is called at plugin registration
     time.
     """