doc: require sphinx 5

Fix #9836.

doc/en/conf.py

@@ -162,11 +162,11 @@ linkcheck_workers = 5
 
 _repo = "https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest"
 extlinks = {
-    "bpo": ("https://bugs.python.org/issue%s", "bpo-"),
-    "pypi": ("https://pypi.org/project/%s/", ""),
-    "issue": (f"{_repo}/issues/%s", "issue #"),
-    "pull": (f"{_repo}/pull/%s", "pull request #"),
-    "user": ("https://github.com/%s", "@"),
+    "bpo": ("https://bugs.python.org/issue%s", "bpo-%s"),
+    "pypi": ("https://pypi.org/project/%s/", "%s"),
+    "issue": (f"{_repo}/issues/%s", "issue #%s"),
+    "pull": (f"{_repo}/pull/%s", "pull request #%s"),
+    "user": ("https://github.com/%s", "@%s"),
 }
 
 
@@ -419,8 +419,6 @@ def configure_logging(app: "sphinx.application.Sphinx") -> None:
 
 
 def setup(app: "sphinx.application.Sphinx") -> None:
-    # from sphinx.ext.autodoc import cut_lines
-    # app.connect('autodoc-process-docstring', cut_lines(4, what=['module']))
     app.add_crossref_type(
         "fixture",
         "fixture",

doc/en/reference/customize.rst

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ and can also be used to hold pytest configuration if they have a ``[pytest]`` se
 setup.cfg
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
-``setup.cfg`` files are general purpose configuration files, used originally by :doc:`distutils <distutils/configfile>`, and can also be used to hold pytest configuration
+``setup.cfg`` files are general purpose configuration files, used originally by :doc:`distutils <python:distutils/configfile>`, and can also be used to hold pytest configuration
 if they have a ``[tool:pytest]`` section.
 
 .. code-block:: ini

doc/en/reference/reference.rst

@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@ New code should avoid using :fixture:`testdir` in favor of :fixture:`pytester`.
 
 .. autoclass:: pytest.Testdir()
     :members:
+    :noindex: TimeoutExpired
 
 
 .. fixture:: recwarn

doc/en/requirements.txt

@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ pallets-sphinx-themes
 pluggy>=1.0
 pygments-pytest>=2.2.0
 sphinx-removed-in>=0.2.0
-sphinx>=3.1,<4
+sphinx>=5,<6
 sphinxcontrib-trio
 sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter
-
-# XXX: sphinx<4 is broken with latest jinja2
-jinja2<3.1

src/_pytest/python_api.py

@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ def approx(expected, rel=None, abs=None, nan_ok: bool = False) -> ApproxBase:
     """Assert that two numbers (or two ordered sequences of numbers) are equal to each other
     within some tolerance.
 
-    Due to the :std:doc:`tutorial/floatingpoint`, numbers that we
+    Due to the :doc:`python:tutorial/floatingpoint`, numbers that we
     would intuitively expect to be equal are not always so::
 
         >>> 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3