diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 44befee7326..6f7d332dbe8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5981,6 +5981,7 @@ in {
       description = "Date parsing library designed to parse dates from HTML pages";
       homepage = http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dateparser;
       license = licenses.bsd3;
+      broken = true;
     };
   };