diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/check-hydra-by-maintainer.nix b/maintainers/scripts/check-hydra-by-maintainer.nix
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+{ maintainer }:
+let
+  pkgs = import ./../../default.nix { };
+  maintainer_ = pkgs.lib.maintainers.${maintainer};
+  packagesWith = cond: return: prefix: set:
+    (pkgs.lib.flatten
+      (pkgs.lib.mapAttrsToList
+        (name: pkg:
+          let
+            result = builtins.tryEval
+              (
+                if pkgs.lib.isDerivation pkg && cond name pkg then
+                # Skip packages whose closure fails on evaluation.
+                # This happens for pkgs like `python27Packages.djangoql`
+                # that have disabled Python pkgs as dependencies.
+                  builtins.seq pkg.outPath
+                    [ (return "${prefix}${name}") ]
+                else if pkg.recurseForDerivations or false || pkg.recurseForRelease or false
+                # then packagesWith cond return pkg
+                then packagesWith cond return "${name}." pkg
+                else [ ]
+              );
+          in
+          if result.success then result.value
+          else [ ]
+        )
+        set
+      )
+    );
+
+  packages = packagesWith
+    (name: pkg:
+      (
+        if builtins.hasAttr "meta" pkg && builtins.hasAttr "maintainers" pkg.meta
+        then
+          (
+            if builtins.isList pkg.meta.maintainers
+            then builtins.elem maintainer_ pkg.meta.maintainers
+            else maintainer_ == pkg.meta.maintainers
+          )
+        else false
+      )
+    )
+    (name: name)
+    ("")
+    pkgs;
+
+in
+pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "nixpkgs-update-script";
+  buildCommand = ''
+    echo ""
+    echo "----------------------------------------------------------------"
+    echo ""
+    echo "nix-shell maintainers/scripts/check-hydra-by-maintainer.nix --argstr maintainer SuperSandro2000"
+    echo ""
+    echo "----------------------------------------------------------------"
+    exit 1
+  '';
+  shellHook = ''
+    unset shellHook # do not contaminate nested shells
+    echo "Please stand by"
+    echo nix-shell -p hydra-check --run "hydra-check ${builtins.concatStringsSep " " packages}"
+    nix-shell -p hydra-check --run "hydra-check ${builtins.concatStringsSep " " packages}"
+    exit $?
+  '';
+}