diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/sane/backends/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/sane/backends/default.nix
index 5daa76bf0aa3..a473613ad5e7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/sane/backends/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/sane/backends/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
   lib,
   fetchFromGitLab,
   fetchpatch,
-  runtimeShell,
   buildPackages,
   gettext,
   pkg-config,
@@ -18,8 +17,8 @@
   libv4l,
   net-snmp,
   curl,
-  systemd,
-  withSystemd ? lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform systemd,
+  systemdLibs,
+  withSystemd ? lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform systemdLibs,
   libxml2,
   poppler,
   gawk,
@@ -42,14 +41,14 @@
   scanSnapDriversPackage ? sane-drivers.epjitsu,
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "sane-backends";
   version = "1.4.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitLab {
     owner = "sane-project";
     repo = "backends";
-    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
+    tag = finalAttrs.version;
     hash = "sha256-e7Wjda+CobYatblvVCGkMAO2aWrdSCp7q+qIEGnGDCY=";
   };
 
@@ -78,10 +77,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # Fixes for cross compilation
     # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/308283
 
-    # related to the compile-sane-desc-for-build
-    substituteInPlace tools/Makefile.in \
-      --replace 'cc -I' '$(CC_FOR_BUILD) -I'
-
     # sane-desc will be used in postInstall so compile it for build
     # https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/sane/patches/sane-desc-cross.patch
     patch -p1 -i ${./sane-desc-cross.patch}
@@ -123,7 +118,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     net-snmp
   ]
   ++ lib.optionals withSystemd [
-    systemd
+    systemdLibs
   ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -131,8 +126,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   configureFlags = [
     "--with-lockdir=/var/lock/sane"
   ]
-  ++ lib.optional (avahi != null) "--with-avahi"
-  ++ lib.optional (libusb1 != null) "--with-usb";
+  ++ lib.optionals (avahi != null) [ "--with-avahi" ]
+  ++ lib.optionals (libusb1 != null) [ "--with-usb" ];
 
   # autoconf check for HAVE_MMAP is never set on cross compilation.
   # The pieusb backend fails compilation if HAVE_MMAP is not set.
@@ -142,7 +137,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   postInstall =
     let
-
       compatFirmware =
         extraFirmware
         ++ lib.optional (gt68xxFirmware != null) {
@@ -160,18 +154,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
         mkdir -p $out/share/sane/${f.backend}
         ln -sv ${f.src} $out/share/sane/${f.backend}/${f.name}
       '';
-
     in
     ''
       mkdir -p $out/etc/udev/rules.d/ $out/etc/udev/hwdb.d
       ./tools/sane-desc -m udev+hwdb -s doc/descriptions:doc/descriptions-external > $out/etc/udev/rules.d/49-libsane.rules
       ./tools/sane-desc -m udev+hwdb -s doc/descriptions:doc/descriptions-external -m hwdb > $out/etc/udev/hwdb.d/20-sane.hwdb
-      # the created 49-libsane references /bin/sh
-      substituteInPlace $out/etc/udev/rules.d/49-libsane.rules \
-        --replace "RUN+=\"/bin/sh" "RUN+=\"${runtimeShell}"
-
-      substituteInPlace $out/lib/libsane.la \
-        --replace "-ljpeg" "-L${lib.getLib libjpeg}/lib -ljpeg"
 
       # net.conf conflicts with the file generated by the nixos module
       rm $out/etc/sane.d/net.conf
@@ -208,4 +195,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = lib.platforms.linux ++ lib.platforms.darwin;
     maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.symphorien ];
   };
-}
+})