Added deprecation warning when using qiskitrc file

qiskit_ibm_runtime/accounts/management.py

@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@
 import os
 import ast
 from typing import Optional, Dict
+
 from qiskit_ibm_provider.proxies import ProxyConfiguration
 
+from qiskit_ibm_runtime.utils.deprecation import issue_deprecation_msg
 from .exceptions import AccountNotFoundError
 from .account import Account, ChannelType
 from .storage import save_config, read_config, delete_config, read_qiskitrc
@@ -195,6 +197,12 @@ def get(
                 return Account.from_saved_format(all_config[account_name])
 
         if os.path.isfile(_QISKITRC_CONFIG_FILE):
+            issue_deprecation_msg(
+                msg="Use of the ~/.qiskit/qiskitrc.json file is deprecated.",
+                version="0.15.0",
+                remedy="Please use the ~/.qiskit/qiskit-ibm.json file instead.",
+                period="1 month",
+            )
             return cls._from_qiskitrc_file()
 
         raise AccountNotFoundError("Unable to find account.")

releasenotes/notes/deprecate_qiskitrc-1fd8afc6d599fc0e.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    Usage of the ``~/.qiskit/qiskitrc.json`` file for account information has been 
+    deprecated. Use ``~/.qiskit/qiskit-ibm.json`` instead.

test/ibm_test_case.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
         setup_test_logging(cls.log, filename)
         cls._set_logging_level(logging.getLogger(QISKIT_IBM_RUNTIME_LOGGER_NAME))
         # fail test on deprecation warnings from qiskit
-        warnings.filterwarnings("error", category=DeprecationWarning, module="qiskit")
+        warnings.filterwarnings("error", category=DeprecationWarning, module=r"^qiskit$")
 
     @classmethod
     def _set_logging_level(cls, logger: logging.Logger) -> None:

test/unit/test_account.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import uuid
 from typing import Any
 from unittest import skipIf
+import warnings
 
 from qiskit_ibm_provider.proxies import ProxyConfiguration
 from qiskit_ibm_runtime.accounts import (
@@ -859,7 +860,9 @@ def test_enable_account_by_qiskitrc(self):
         """
         with custom_qiskitrc(contents=str.encode(str_contents)):
             with temporary_account_config_file(contents={}):
-                service = FakeRuntimeService()
+                with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as warn:
+                    service = FakeRuntimeService()
+        self.assertIn("Use of the ~/.qiskit/qiskitrc.json file is deprecated", str(warn[0].message))
         self.assertTrue(service._account)
         self.assertEqual(service._account.token, token)