diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/catalogue/1.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/catalogue/1.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9376377e9c77..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/catalogue/1.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, importlib-metadata
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "catalogue";
-  version = "1.0.0";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "d74d1d856c6b36a37bf14aa6dbbc27d0582667b7ab979a6108e61a575e8723f5";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ importlib-metadata ];
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Tiny library for adding function or object registries";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/explosion/catalogue";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ danieldk ];
-    };
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/catalogue/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/catalogue/default.nix
index 0697a4e61179..eb1aec37c634 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/catalogue/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/catalogue/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchPypi
+, pythonOlder
 , importlib-metadata
 }:
 
@@ -8,6 +9,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "catalogue";
   version = "2.0.0";
 
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
+
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
     sha256 = "34f8416ec5e7ed08e55c10414416e67c3f4d66edf83bc67320c3290775293816";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix
index f0a143ec30c7..51b04d372c5e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/default.nix
@@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # '';
 
   postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.cfg --replace "thinc==7.4.1" "thinc>=7.4.1,<8"
+    substituteInPlace setup.cfg \
+      --replace "catalogue>=0.0.7,<1.1.0" "catalogue>=0.0.7,<3.0" \
+      --replace "plac>=0.9.6,<1.2.0" "plac>=0.9.6,<2.0" \
+      --replace "srsly>=1.0.2,<1.1.0" "srsly>=1.0.2,<3.0" \
+      --replace "thinc==7.4.1" "thinc>=7.4.1,<8"
   '';
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "spacy" ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python and Cython";
     homepage = "https://github.com/explosion/spaCy";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/srsly/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/srsly/default.nix
index 92e6b84afdfe..54590f2e35a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/srsly/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/srsly/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "srsly";
   version = "2.0.1";
 
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
+
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
     sha256 = "fa3c7375be8fe75f23c27feafbfb5f738d55ffdbf02964c6896fb7684f519a52";
@@ -22,8 +24,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cython ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = lib.optional (pythonOlder "3.4") pathlib;
-
   checkInputs = [
     mock
     numpy
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # Possibly because of sandbox restrictions.
   doCheck = false;
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "srsly" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Modern high-performance serialization utilities for Python";
     homepage = "https://github.com/explosion/srsly";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/thinc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/thinc/default.nix
index e47e17094af3..b32b996ffd6f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/thinc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/thinc/default.nix
@@ -58,10 +58,19 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # Cannot find cython modules.
   doCheck = false;
 
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace setup.py \
+      --replace "catalogue>=0.0.7,<1.1.0" "catalogue>=0.0.7,<3.0" \
+      --replace "plac>=0.9.6,<1.2.0" "plac>=0.9.6,<2.0" \
+      --replace "srsly>=0.0.6,<1.1.0" "srsly>=0.0.6,<3.0"
+  '';
+
   checkPhase = ''
     pytest thinc/tests
   '';
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "thinc" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Practical Machine Learning for NLP in Python";
     homepage = "https://github.com/explosion/thinc";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 7b54ed711e2c..1f33a76f4d63 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -569,10 +569,7 @@ in {
 
   cadquery = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cadquery { };
 
-  catalogue = if isPy3k then
-    callPackage ../development/python-modules/catalogue { }
-  else
-    callPackage ../development/python-modules/catalogue/1.nix { };
+  catalogue = callPackage ../development/python-modules/catalogue { };
 
   cbeams = callPackage ../misc/cbeams { };