diff --git a/bindep.txt b/bindep.txt
index dc62a23be0..00619ec566 100644
--- a/bindep.txt
+++ b/bindep.txt
@@ -33,13 +33,15 @@ openldap-devel [platform:redhat]
 pkg-config [platform:dpkg]
 pkgconfig [platform:redhat]
 postgresql-devel [platform:redhat]
-pypy [platform:dpkg]
-pypy-dev [platform:dpkg]
+pypy [platform:dpkg !platform:debian-bookworm]
+pypy-dev [platform:dpkg !platform:debian-bookworm]
+pypy3 [platform:debian-bookworm]
+pypy3-dev [platform:debian-bookworm]
 # Note that python3-all-dev includes python3-all, added
 # both here for documentary purpose.
 python3-all-dev [platform:dpkg]
 python3-all [platform:dpkg]
-python-all-dev [platform:dpkg]
+python-all-dev [platform:dpkg !platform:debian-bookworm]
 python3-devel [platform:rpm]
 # Ubuntu packages venv separately, otherwise standard
 python3-venv [platform:dpkg]