Remove dependency on sphinx-autodoc-typehints

docs/conf.py

@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
     'sphinx.ext.mathjax',
     'sphinx.ext.viewcode',
     'sphinx.ext.extlinks',
-    'sphinx_autodoc_typehints',
     'jupyter_sphinx',
     'nbsphinx',
     'sphinx_design',
@@ -161,6 +160,13 @@
 autosummary_generate_overwrite = False
 autoclass_content = 'both'
 
+# Move type hints from signatures to the parameter descriptions (except in overload cases, where
+# that's not possible).
+autodoc_typehints = "description"
+# Only add type hints from signature to description body if the parameter has documentation.  The
+# return type is always added to the description (if in the signature).
+autodoc_typehints_description_target = "documented_params"
+
 # Plot directive configuration
 # ----------------------------
 

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 qiskit-ibmq-provider[visualization]
 numpy>=1.17
-Sphinx~=4.0
+Sphinx>=5.0
 qiskit-sphinx-theme~=1.10.3
-sphinx-autodoc-typehints>=1.8.0
 pylatexenc>=1.4
 sphinx-automodapi
 jupyter