diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0a7881b..120a884 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ reportUnknownArgumentType = false
 reportUnknownMemberType = false
 reportUnknownParameterType = false
 reportUnknownVariableType = false
+reportUntypedFunctionDecorator = false
 reportUnusedClass = true
 reportUnusedFunction = true
 reportUnusedImport = true
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 65fafb3..c5172c4 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ packages = find:
 
 [options.extras_require]
 test =
+    importlib-metadata; python_version <"3.8.0"
     pyquery  # for checking HTML output
     pytest
     pytest-cov
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 62c0662..c504c48 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -1,11 +1,28 @@
-# cspell:ignore rootdir
+import sys
+
 import pytest
-from sphinx.testing.path import path
+
+if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
+    from importlib_metadata import version
+else:
+    from importlib.metadata import version
 
 pytest_plugins = "sphinx.testing.fixtures"
 collect_ignore = ["roots"]
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
-def rootdir() -> path:
-    return path(__file__).parent.abspath() / "roots"
+# cspell:ignore rootdir
+sphinx_version = version("Sphinx")
+if sphinx_version < "7.2":
+    from sphinx.testing.path import path
+
+    @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+    def rootdir() -> path:
+        return path(__file__).parent.abspath() / "roots"
+
+else:
+    from pathlib import Path
+
+    @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+    def rootdir() -> Path:
+        return Path(__file__).parent.absolute() / "roots"