diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/backend/__init__.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/backend/__init__.py
index ecf41e05ac4..72ebdfee6bf 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/backend/__init__.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/backend/__init__.py
@@ -9,16 +9,3 @@ if hasattr(connection.ops, 'spatial_version'):
          'backend.  A `SpatialBackend` alias is provided here for '
          'backwards-compatibility, but will be removed in 1.3.')
     SpatialBackend = connection.ops
-
-from django.db import connection
-
-if hasattr(connection.ops, 'spatial_version'):
-    from warnings import warn
-    warn('The `django.contrib.gis.db.backend` module was refactored and '
-         'renamed to `django.contrib.gis.db.backends` in 1.2.  '
-         'All functionality of `SpatialBackend` '
-         'has been moved to the `ops` attribute of the spatial database '
-         'backend.  A `SpatialBackend` alias is provided here for '
-         'backwards-compatibility, but will be removed in 1.3.')
-    SpatialBackend = connection.ops
-
diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index 5ecc5a1d3da..8479a32bcfa 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ their deprecation, as per the :ref:`Django deprecation policy
           ``supports_object_permissions`` and ``supports_anonymous_user``.
           The old backend style is deprecated since the 1.2 release.
 
+        * The :mod:`django.contrib.gis.db.backend` module, including the
+          ``SpatialBackend`` interface, is deprecated since the 1.2 release.
+
     * 1.4
         * ``CsrfResponseMiddleware``.  This has been deprecated since the 1.2
           release, in favour of the template tag method for inserting the CSRF