diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f3ed866ac..7eddcdf95 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ docs = [
     "sphinxcontrib-bibtex",
     # fix https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex/issues/309
     # "docutils>=0.19.1",
-    "docutils @ git+https://github.com/docutils/docutils@17f69f54bc9872602b07320ad94ca4860556fae3#egg=docutils&subdirectory=docutils",
+    #"docutils @ git+https://github.com/docutils/docutils@17f69f54bc9872602b07320ad94ca4860556fae3#egg=docutils&subdirectory=docutils",
 ]
 
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 75011a20e..2617b7531 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ commands =
 [testenv:docs]
 description = invoke sphinx-build to build the HTML docs
 extras = docs
+deps =
+    docutils @ git+https://github.com/docutils/docutils@17f69f54bc9872602b07320ad94ca4860556fae3#egg=docutils&subdirectory=docutils
 commands =
     make -C "{toxinidir}/docs" html
 allowlist_externals =