After apt dist-upgrade powershell-empire fails to start with following error:

user@ap0calypse:~$ sudo powershell-empire
[sudo] password for user:
[*] Loading stagers from: /usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/stagers/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/./empire", line 1924, in <module>
main = empire.MainMenu(args=args)
File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/common/empire.py", line 133, in init
self.stagers = stagers.Stagers(self, args=args)
File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/common/stagers.py", line 52, in init
self.load_stagers()
File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/common/stagers.py", line 79, in load_stagers
spec.loader.exec_module(mod)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/usr/share/powershell-empire/lib/stagers/windows/backdoorLnkMacro.py", line 13, in <module>
from xlutils.copy import copy
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xlutils/copy.py", line 7, in <module>
from xlutils.filter import process,XLRDReader,XLWTWriter
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xlutils/filter.py", line 10, in <module>
import xlrd,xlwt
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/init.py", line 5, in <module>
from .Row import Row
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/Row.py", line 9, in <module>
from . import ExcelFormula
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/ExcelFormula.py", line 8, in <module>
from . import ExcelFormulaParser, ExcelFormulaLexer
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xlwt/ExcelFormulaLexer.py", line 53, in <module>
_re = recompile(
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/re.py", line 252, in compile
return _compile(pattern, flags)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/re.py", line 304, in _compile
p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/sre_compile.py", line 764, in compile
p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/sre_parse.py", line 958, in parse
p.state.flags = fix_flags(str, p.state.flags)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/sre_parse.py", line 925, in fix_flags
raise ValueError("cannot use LOCALE flag with a str pattern")
ValueError: cannot use LOCALE flag with a str pattern