From f2fb6ad84910ffdc8f9f680cd8c68034bca00436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Shadrach <45562402+rhshadrach@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2025 08:59:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "ENH: Add tzdata to hard dependencies (#61308)"

This reverts commit 09de147f67452cfe97d3a90d224ae3b7c198bebe.
---
 pandas/__init__.py              | 2 +-
 pandas/tests/test_downstream.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/__init__.py b/pandas/__init__.py
index cc786d1141c48..18db18d98bce2 100644
--- a/pandas/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext"
 
 # Let users know if they're missing any of our hard dependencies
-_hard_dependencies = ("numpy", "dateutil", "tzdata")
+_hard_dependencies = ("numpy", "dateutil")
 
 for _dependency in _hard_dependencies:
     try:
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_downstream.py b/pandas/tests/test_downstream.py
index 02ead5bddec70..60b6537e11bac 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_downstream.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_downstream.py
@@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ def test_yaml_dump(df):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(df, loaded2)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("dependency", ["numpy", "dateutil", "tzdata"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("dependency", ["numpy", "dateutil"])
 def test_missing_required_dependency(monkeypatch, dependency):
-    # GH#61030, GH61273
+    # GH#61030
     original_import = __import__
     mock_error = ImportError(f"Mock error for {dependency}")
 

From 5b8b5e9b6113b5f2a58cdcd39c2e12cae555da34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Shadrach <rhshadrach@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2025 09:01:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add comment

---
 pandas/__init__.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pandas/__init__.py b/pandas/__init__.py
index 18db18d98bce2..371af85aa62c3 100644
--- a/pandas/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext"
 
 # Let users know if they're missing any of our hard dependencies
+# except tzdata (see https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/63264)
 _hard_dependencies = ("numpy", "dateutil")
 
 for _dependency in _hard_dependencies: