The upstream documentation is a bit unclear, but I read somewhere that statsmodels' documentation can be built with pandoc.
On amd64 I was able to build statsmodels after uninstalling nodejs and installing pandoc instead. A package called "pandoc" sounds like a more obvious choice for building documentation than a package called "nodejs" so I suggest you replace the "nodejs" Build-Depends in debian/control with "pandoc". There are several architectures that have pandoc but not nodejs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=nodejs&suite=sid https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=pandoc&suite=sid There is currently one architecture, kfreebsd-i386, that has nodejs but not pandoc, but that is probably just a temporary problem as kfreebsd-i386 has always has it in the past: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=pandoc&arch=kfreebsd-i386 If you did want to insert a work-around for the temporary problem then you would presumably replace nodejs, with something like: nodejs [kfreebsd-i386] | pandoc, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org