With Octave 9.2.0, symbolic 3.2.1, Python 3.11.9, and SymPy 1.12.1, one of the unit tests in vpa.m fails:

***** test
 % we use B_1 = 1/2
 if (pycall_sympy__ ('return Version(spver) >= Version("1.12.dev")'))
   assert (isequal (bernoulli (sym(1)), sym(1)/2))
 end
!!!!! test failed
Python exception: TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'str'
    occurred at line 1 of the Python code block:
    return Version(spver) >= Version("1.12.dev")

In my Debian system, with package python3-packaging installed, the problem disappears.

This may be caused by this piece of code in inst/private/python_header.py:

    try:
        from packaging.version import Version
    except ImportError:
        try:
            # available on SymPy >= 1.9
            from sympy.external.importtools import version_tuple as Version
        except ImportError:
            # will fail on Python 3.12: drop this soon in favour of above
            from distutils.version import LooseVersion
            def Version(v):
                return LooseVersion(v.replace('.dev', ''))