spaCy: Install via `requirements.txt` documentation doesn't work

The docs state I can specify the model like this in requirements.txt:

spacy>=3.0.0,<4.0.0
en_core_web_sm @ https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.4.0/en_core_web_sm-3.4.0-py3-none-any.whl

This attempts to download spacy 3.4.4.

And a VERY long series of exceptions like this is raised:

45.29             thinc/backends/numpy_ops.cpp:2408:34: error: ‘_PyCFrame’ {aka ‘struct _PyCFrame’} has no member named ‘use_tracing’
45.29              2408 |      (unlikely((tstate)->cframe->use_tracing) &&\
45.29                   |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~
45.29             thinc/backends/numpy_ops.cpp:1001:43: note: in definition of macro ‘unlikely’
45.29              1001 |   #define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
45.29                   |                                           ^
45.29             thinc/backends/numpy_ops.cpp:2513:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘__Pyx_IsTracing’
45.29              2513 |           if (__Pyx_IsTracing(tstate, 0, 0)) {\
45.29                   |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
45.29             thinc/backends/numpy_ops.cpp:46877:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘__Pyx_TraceReturn’
45.29             46877 |   __Pyx_TraceReturn(Py_None, 1);
45.29                   |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

All my attempts so far to cache Spacy’s download by specifying the model in requirements.txt have failed (see replies below).

Context: I’m installing this in Docker. Python image is python:3.12.1-slim