diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mahotas/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mahotas/default.nix
index f993c7a61b00..9d0aa801707e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mahotas/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mahotas/default.nix
@@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "mahotas" ];
 
-  disabled = stdenv.hostPlatform.isi686; # Failing tests
-
   meta = {
-    broken = (stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64);
+    broken =
+      (stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64)
+      # Failing tests
+      || stdenv.hostPlatform.isi686;
     description = "Computer vision package based on numpy";
     homepage = "https://mahotas.readthedocs.io/";
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ luispedro ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ospd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ospd/default.nix
index cffeb4e6cb68..615ff3c2693f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ospd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ospd/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
   paramiko,
   psutil,
   pytestCheckHook,
-  pythonOlder,
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -17,8 +16,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   version = "21.4.4";
   format = "setuptools";
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7" || stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
-
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "greenbone";
     repo = "ospd";
@@ -44,5 +41,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     changelog = "https://github.com/greenbone/ospd/releases/tag/v${version}";
     license = with lib.licenses; [ agpl3Plus ];
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fab ];
+    broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/soundfile/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/soundfile/default.nix
index aec21950eed7..a2c86469efd9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/soundfile/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/soundfile/default.nix
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "soundfile";
   version = "0.13.1";
   pyproject = true;
-  # https://github.com/bastibe/python-soundfile/issues/157
-  disabled = isPyPy || stdenv.hostPlatform.isi686;
+  disabled = isPyPy;
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
@@ -45,5 +44,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     description = "Audio library based on libsndfile, CFFI and NumPy";
     license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
     homepage = "https://github.com/bastibe/python-soundfile";
+    # https://github.com/bastibe/python-soundfile/issues/157
+    broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isi686;
   };
 }