diff --git a/python-networkx.changes b/python-networkx.changes
index 75bf39a..4c84c5b 100644
--- a/python-networkx.changes
+++ b/python-networkx.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  2 07:28:15 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- require pandas 
+
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 Wed Jul 28 23:30:34 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-networkx.spec b/python-networkx.spec
index b4e8225..f0b3352 100644
--- a/python-networkx.spec
+++ b/python-networkx.spec
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Recommends:     python-pygraphviz
 Recommends:     python-pyparsing
 Requires:       python-matplotlib >= 3.1
 Requires:       python-numpy
-Suggests:       python-pandas
+Requires:       python-pandas
 Requires:       python-scipy
 BuildArch:      noarch
 # SECTION test requirements