diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix
index f0a143ec30c..51b04d372c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix
@@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # '';
 
   postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.cfg --replace "thinc==7.4.1" "thinc>=7.4.1,<8"
+    substituteInPlace setup.cfg \
+      --replace "catalogue>=0.0.7,<1.1.0" "catalogue>=0.0.7,<3.0" \
+      --replace "plac>=0.9.6,<1.2.0" "plac>=0.9.6,<2.0" \
+      --replace "srsly>=1.0.2,<1.1.0" "srsly>=1.0.2,<3.0" \
+      --replace "thinc==7.4.1" "thinc>=7.4.1,<8"
   '';
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "spacy" ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python and Cython";
     homepage = "https://github.com/explosion/spaCy";