diff --git a/pkgs/servers/varnish/rtstatus.nix b/pkgs/servers/varnish/rtstatus.nix
index 1efa6d5e798..e92559f038d 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/varnish/rtstatus.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/varnish/rtstatus.nix
@@ -17,5 +17,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     description = "Varnish realtime status page";
     homepage = https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-rtstatus;
     inherit (varnish.meta) license platforms maintainers;
+    broken = true; # it has not ported to varnish 5.2 yet (5.1 is ok)
   };
 }