Import of minimalmodbus leads to errors

Dear Folks,

I am working on my very first custom component/sensor and facing a strange problem.
My sensor requires minimalmodbus and I does not seem to get it to work.
Within my manifest.json, I set the requirement:

"requirements": ["minimalmodbus==1.0.2"]

Minimalmodbus itself requires pySerial, which is also installed.
But in the logs, I always the this error from minimalmodbus:

 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/minimalmodbus.py", line 208, in __init__
 self.serial = _serialports[port] = serial.Serial(
 AttributeError: module 'serial' has no attribute 'Serial'

I also added pySerial to the requirements, but this did not solve the problem.
Maybe in HA there is also another module named “serial”?
Up to now, I have no idea what to do…

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks a lot & best regards,
Michael

Additional Info:
I just tried to use the modbus integration which comes with HA.
Same error in the logs:

2020-06-07 21:54:23 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Error during setup of component modbus Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymodbus/client/sync.py", line 592, in connect self.socket = serial.Serial(port=self.port, AttributeError: module 'serial' has no attribute 'Serial'

Maybe this is a bug in HA…?