Deprecate NoiseAdaptiveLayout and CrosstalkAdaptiveSchedule

This commit deprecates two transpiler passes that are no longer useful
in modern Qiskit. NoiseAdaptiveLayout has largely been superseded by
VF2Layout and VF2PostLayout which takes noise into account for layout
selection. The CrosstalkAdaptiveSchedule isn't usable anymore as it
relies on custom fields being set to report cross talk in the
BackendProperties payload for a BackendV1 instance. As most backends
are using BackendV2 now and no current backends are reporting this
custom field the pass can't be used. These transpiler passes will be
removed in the 1.0.0 release (see Qiskit#11400).

qiskit/transpiler/passes/layout/noise_adaptive_layout.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 from qiskit.transpiler.basepasses import AnalysisPass
 from qiskit.transpiler.exceptions import TranspilerError
 from qiskit.transpiler.target import target_to_backend_properties, Target
+from qiskit.utils.deprecation import deprecate_func
 
 
 class NoiseAdaptiveLayout(AnalysisPass):
@@ -54,7 +55,11 @@ class NoiseAdaptiveLayout(AnalysisPass):
          in the transpiler architecture it is best passed around between passes
          by being set in `property_set`.
     """
-
+    @deprecate_func(
+        "0.46",
+        package_name="qiskit",
+        removal_timeline="in the 1.0.0 release",
+    )
     def __init__(self, backend_prop, coupling_map=None):
         """NoiseAdaptiveLayout initializer.
 

qiskit/transpiler/passes/optimization/crosstalk_adaptive_schedule.py

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 from qiskit.circuit.barrier import Barrier
 from qiskit.dagcircuit import DAGOpNode
 from qiskit.utils import optionals as _optionals
+from qiskit.utils.deprecation import deprecate_func
 
 NUM_PREC = 10
 TWOQ_XTALK_THRESH = 3
@@ -50,6 +51,11 @@
 class CrosstalkAdaptiveSchedule(TransformationPass):
     """Crosstalk mitigation through adaptive instruction scheduling."""
 
+    @deprecate_func(
+        "0.46",
+        package_name="qiskit",
+        removal_timeline="in the 1.0.0 release",
+    )
     def __init__(
         self, backend_prop, crosstalk_prop, weight_factor=0.5, measured_qubits=None, target=None
     ):

releasenotes/notes/deprecate-old-passes-b2650ec96683b924.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    The :class:`.NoiseAdaptiveLayout` transpiler pass and the corresponding
+    ``"noise_adaptive"`` layout stage plugin have been deprecated and will
+    be removed in the 1.0.0 release. This pass has been largely superseded by
+    :class:`.VF2Layout` and :class:`.VF2PostLayout` which will set a layout
+    based on the reported noise characteristics of a backend.
+  - |
+    The :class:`.CrosstalkAdaptiveSchedule` transpiler pass has been deprecated
+    and will be removed in the 1.0.0 release. This pass was not usable any
+    longer because it's internal operation was dependent on custom properties
+    being set in the :class:`.BackendProperties` payload of a
+    :class:`.BackendV1` instance. As no backends are setting these fields
+    the pass has been deprecated.