Merge pull request #12675 from nicoddemus/pin-towncrier

Pin towncrier due to incompatibility with sphinxcontrib-towncrier

Author: nicoddemus

doc/en/broken-dep-constraints.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# This file contains transitive dependencies that need to be pinned for some reason.
+# Eventually this file will be empty, but in this case keep it around for future use.
+
+# Pin towncrier temporarily due to incompatibility with sphinxcontrib-towncrier:
+# https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinxcontrib-towncrier/issues/92
+towncrier!=24.7.0,!=24.7.1

doc/en/requirements.txt

@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
+-c broken-dep-constraints.txt
 pluggy>=1.5.0
 pygments-pytest>=2.3.0
 sphinx-removed-in>=0.2.0
 sphinx>=7
 sphinxcontrib-trio
 sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter
-# Pin packaging because it no longer handles 'latest' version, which
-# is the version that is assigned to the docs.
-# See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/10578#issuecomment-1348249045.
-packaging
 furo
 sphinxcontrib-towncrier
 sphinx-issues