diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/poetry2nix/poetry2nix/overrides/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/poetry2nix/poetry2nix/overrides/default.nix
index 14338423ec39..341d299906be 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/poetry2nix/poetry2nix/overrides/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/poetry2nix/poetry2nix/overrides/default.nix
@@ -2738,15 +2738,12 @@ lib.composeManyExtensions [
         }
       );
 
-      wheel = ((
-        pkgs.python3.pkgs.override {
-          python = self.python;
+      wheel = if self.python.isPy2 then
+        super.wheel.override {
+          inherit (self) bootstrapped-pip;
         }
-      ).wheel.override {
-        inherit (self) buildPythonPackage bootstrapped-pip setuptools;
-      }).overrideAttrs (old: {
-        inherit (super.wheel) pname name version src;
-      });
+      else
+        super.wheel;
 
       zipp = if super.zipp == null then null else
       super.zipp.overridePythonAttrs (