diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/di/diffoscope/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/di/diffoscope/package.nix
index c3b3324d098b..3fe649e98b41 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/di/diffoscope/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/di/diffoscope/package.nix
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ let
   python = python3.override {
     self = python;
     packageOverrides = final: prev: {
+      # version 2 breaks dataset and thus androguard
+      sqlalchemy = prev.sqlalchemy_1_4;
       # version 4 or newer would log the following error but tests currently don't fail because radare2 is disabled
       # ValueError: argument TNULL is not a TLSH hex string
       tlsh = prev.tlsh.overridePythonAttrs (