Deprecate PyEval_AcquireLock() and PyEval_ReleaseLock()

[pitrou]

BPO	10913
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[pitrou]

These two functions are very low-level and no good to use outside the interpreter core (actually, inside the core I don't think they are useful either). We should deprecate them and recommend the thread-state aware functions instead. See bpo-1720250 for an example confusion.

[pitrou]

Done in r88018.