Installing the latest version in a container running jupyterlab (https://github.com/iot-salzburg/gpu-jupyter), I received the following error message when trying to start the debugger:
[I 2023-03-23 13:46:51.558 ServerApp] Connecting to kernel e19488f7-600b-45fe-8ccd-d3b614a3c5bc.
ERROR: received bad message: NameError: name 'debugpy' is not defined
At:
  <string>(2): <module>
Message type: debug_request
Downgrade to xeus-python==0.15.2 fixed the issue.