Problem

Fixes #14683.

doctest_namespace injections (and any fixture defined in the rootdir conftest) stopped being available in pytest 9.1 when --rootdir points to a subdirectory and tests/doctests are collected from a parent directory. Doctests then fail with NameError, e.g. the reporter's invocation:

pytest --rootdir src/xclim/testing --config-file=src/xclim/testing/conftest.py \
       --doctest-modules src/xclim

Reproduced: 9.0.3 passes, 9.1.1 fails with NameError: name '...' is not defined.

Cause

Bisected to 46478fad5 (#14098, pytest 9.1), which changed conftest fixture visibility from nodeid-based to node-based:

• Before 9.1: a conftest located in the rootdir got an empty baseid (relative to rootdir), which matches every collected item — its fixtures were visible session-wide.
• After 9.1: that conftest is scoped to its own Directory node. When items are collected from outside the rootdir, that Directory is a sibling subtree, not an ancestor of the items, so the fixtures are no longer visible.

Fix

Restore the pre-9.1 behavior by attaching the rootdir conftest to the Session node, in the two places a conftest gets parsed:

1. _flush_pending_conftests_to_session — also flush the initial rootdir conftest (e.g. when it is the --config-file) to the Session.
2. pytest_make_collect_report — when collecting the rootdir Directory, attach its conftest to the Session instead of the Directory.

This is safe:

• Behavior-identical for normal layouts (everything under the rootdir): the Session is an ancestor of all items, so visibility is unchanged.
• Preserves Conftest fixtures leak to sibling directories when testpaths points outside rootdir #14004: only the rootdir conftest is affected; nested conftests still scope to their own Directory, so sibling-leak does not return.
• Fixture overrides still work: a subdir conftest remains more specific than the Session per is_visibility_more_specific, so it still wins.

Tests

• testing/test_conftest.py::test_rootdir_conftest_visible_outside_rootdir
• testing/test_doctest.py::TestDoctestNamespaceFixture::test_namespace_fixture_from_rootdir_when_modules_outside_rootdir (mirrors the reporter's exact --config-file + collect-from-parent pattern)

Both fail on main and pass with this change. Added news fragment changelog/14683.bugfix.rst.

Note on #14635

#14635 (Home Assistant, "fixtures not found when a parent directory appears multiple times in an argument list") is tracked as a duplicate and is being worked on separately by @RonnyPfannschmidt (multiple Directory nodes for the same path). This PR targets the rootdir-conftest visibility facet (#14683) only; making the rootdir conftest Session-visible also makes it more robust against the multi-node scenario, but it is not meant to be the complete fix for #14635.