diff --git a/.github/workflows/wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
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-on: 
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
-jobs:
-  trigger_wheel_builds:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: Trigger macOS and manylinux wheel builds
-    if: github.repository == 'matplotlib/matplotlib'
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-        with:
-          repository: MacPython/matplotlib-wheels
-          ssh-key: ${{ secrets.WHEEL_DEPLOY_KEY }}
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Prepare build commit
-        id: commit
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          TAG="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
-          BRANCH="$(echo ${TAG} | sed 's/^v\([0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\)\.[0-9]\+.*$/build-\1.x/')"
-          echo "${BRANCH}"
-          echo "##[set-output name=branch;]${BRANCH}"
-          git branch ${BRANCH} master || true
-          git checkout ${BRANCH}
-          sed -i -e "s/\(- BUILD_COMMIT=\).\+/\1${TAG}/g" .travis.yml
-          git add .travis.yml
-          git config --global user.name 'Matplotlib Actions Bot'
-          git config --global user.email 'matplotlib@users.noreply.github.com'
-          git commit -m "REL: $TAG"
-      - name: Push to matplotlib-wheels
-        run: |
-          git push origin ${{ steps.commit.outputs.branch }}