diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ludios_wpull/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ludios_wpull/default.nix
index 7bea2b04bbd4..e87146f6fbc3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ludios_wpull/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ludios_wpull/default.nix
@@ -8,15 +8,16 @@
 , lxml
 , namedlist
 , sqlalchemy
-, tornado_4
+, tornado
 , Yapsy
+, pythonAtLeast
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "ludios_wpull";
   version = "3.0.7";
 
-  disabled = !isPy3k;
+  disabled = (!isPy3k) || (pythonAtLeast "3.8");
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     rev = version;
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "1j96avm0ynbazypzp766wh26n4qc73y7wgsiqfrdfl6x7rx20wgf";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ chardet dnspython html5-parser lxml namedlist sqlalchemy tornado_4 Yapsy ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ chardet dnspython html5-parser lxml namedlist sqlalchemy tornado Yapsy ];
 
   # Test suite has tests that fail on all platforms
   doCheck = false;
@@ -35,5 +36,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/ludios/wpull";
     license = lib.licenses.gpl3;
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ivan ];
+    broken = lib.versions.major tornado.version != "4";
   };
 }