Bug#1031701: pandas can't open xls (not xlsx) files, xlrd too old

[Diane Trout]

I'm trying to talk the release team into letting me update, but I do
think the update would likely break a different, so it's likely the
answer will be no. I will try to get the updated xlrd into backports
when it opens though.

If you want to manually use debian packages instead of pip the updated
package from experimental can be found here.

https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/python-xlrd