diff --git a/doc/en/broken-dep-constraints.txt b/doc/en/broken-dep-constraints.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f7c3211a9a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/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
diff --git a/doc/en/requirements.txt b/doc/en/requirements.txt
index 0637c967b8a..ddcb7efb99b 100644
--- a/doc/en/requirements.txt
+++ b/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