diff -Nru statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/changelog statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/changelog
--- statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/changelog	2020-01-28 22:29:29.000000000 +0000
+++ statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/changelog	2020-02-04 00:34:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+statsmodels (0.10.2-2+rpi1) bullseye-staging; urgency=medium
+
+  * Disable testsuite.
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:34:03 +0000
+
 statsmodels (0.10.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Docs: don't fail the build on no-network exceptions.  Closes: #950087.
diff -Nru statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/rules statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/rules
--- statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/rules	2019-11-19 21:49:23.000000000 +0000
+++ statsmodels-0.10.2/debian/rules	2020-02-04 00:33:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 # the inner 'for' (expected to be a single item, cpython3_${testpy3ver}_statsmodels/build) is because globs aren't expanded when setting env vars
 # TEST_SUCCESS is used because the return status of a for-loop is its last item, not the "fail if any of them do" wanted here
 override_dh_auto_test:
-ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+ifeq (testsuitedisabled,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 	TEST_SUCCESS=true ; cd tools && for testpy3ver in `py3versions -vs` ; do \
 	for testpath in ../.pybuild/*$${testpy3ver}*/*/statsmodels ; do \
 	PYTHONPATH=$${testpath}/.. python$${testpy3ver} -m pytest -v $${testpath} || TEST_SUCCESS=false ; \