Mycroft-core broken on Debian testing/sid "Bookworm"

[MarkMLl]

Describe the bug Recurrence of ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests' error on latest (non-stable) Debian.

To Reproduce

$ ./start-mycroft.sh debug
Already up to date.
Starting all mycroft-core services
Initializing...
Starting background service bus
CAUTION: The Mycroft bus is an open websocket with no built-in security
         measures.  You are responsible for protecting the local port
         8181 with a firewall as appropriate.
Starting background service skills
Starting background service audio
Starting background service voice
Starting background service enclosure
Starting cli
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 189, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 112, in _get_module_details
  File "/usr/local/mycroft-core/mycroft/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from mycroft.api import Api
  File "/usr/local/mycroft-core/mycroft/api/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

Expected behavior Mycroft should start without error. This was working until a few days ago, but has presumably been borked by a recent Debian change.

Log files I have the logfiles from /var/log/mycroft/ but they are large since I've been trying to characterise a wakeword problem.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Device type: x86_64 PC, no AVX2.
• OS: Debian testing/sid "Bookworm"
• Mycroft-core version: start-mycroft.sh doesn't produce useful output in response to the --version option.
• Other versions:

Additional context Mycroft is definitely unchanged (unless it's tried updating itself as a part of the failed startup), but Debian is updated regularly since this is a "bleeding edge" system... I'd rather not do anything to break the underlying OS.

[forslund]

Did you get any error when running the dev_setup.sh script to set up the mycroft requirements and venv?

[MarkMLl]

No. It installed without problems other than that the computer doesn't have AVX2 and Pocket Sphinx appears erratic.

Operation was OK until I checked a couple of days ago, intending to raise the Pocket Sphinx issue on the forum.