Bug#1031701: python3-pandas: Pandas requires version '2.0.1' or newer of 'xlrd'

[Christopher Jones]

Package: python3-pandas
Version: 1.5.3+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When attempting to use pandas read_excel function I get the following error message:
ImportError: Pandas requires version '2.0.1' or newer of 'xlrd' (version '1.2.0' currently installed).

xlrd 1.2 appears to be the latest currently available release packaged for Debian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)