diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index 54aef8fb8313..7de5a4e4744f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ in
     '';
   });
 
-  cqueues = prev.cqueues.overrideAttrs (oa: rec {
+  cqueues = prev.cqueues.overrideAttrs (oa: {
     # Parse out a version number without the Lua version inserted
     version =
       let
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ in
       in
       "${date}-${rev}";
 
-    meta.broken = luaOlder "5.1" || luaAtLeast "5.4";
+    meta.broken = luaOlder "5.1" || luaAtLeast "5.5";
 
     nativeBuildInputs = oa.nativeBuildInputs ++ [
       gnum4
@@ -133,13 +133,13 @@ in
     # version, which doesn't work well for us, so modify it
     postConfigure =
       let
-        inherit (prev.cqueues) pname;
+        inherit (final.cqueues) pname version;
       in
       ''
         # 'all' target auto-detects correct Lua version, which is fine for us as
         # we only have the right one available :)
         sed -Ei ''${rockspecFilename} \
-          -e 's|lua == 5.[[:digit:]]|lua >= 5.1, <= 5.3|' \
+          -e 's|lua == 5.[[:digit:]]|lua >= 5.1, <= 5.4|' \
           -e 's|build_target = "[^"]+"|build_target = "all"|' \
           -e 's|version = "[^"]+"|version = "${version}"|'
         specDir=$(dirname ''${rockspecFilename})