It's no longer necessary to filter this warning and it's not a warning anymore.
@@ -5,5 +5,3 @@ doctest_optionflags=ALLOW_UNICODE ELLIPSIS
# workaround for warning pytest-dev/pytest#6178
junit_family=xunit2
filterwarnings=
- # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6928
- ignore:direct construction of .*Item has been deprecated:DeprecationWarning
