diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/highdicom/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/highdicom/default.nix
index d1c5c6406f7f..01a24c2427d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/highdicom/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/highdicom/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   pydicom,
   pylibjpeg,
   pylibjpeg-libjpeg,
+  pylibjpeg-openjpeg,
   setuptools,
   typing-extensions,
 }:
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     libjpeg = [
       pylibjpeg
       pylibjpeg-libjpeg
-      #pylibjpeg-openjpeg  # broken on aarch64-linux
+      pylibjpeg-openjpeg
     ];
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibjpeg-openjpeg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibjpeg-openjpeg/default.nix
index e6d301908db7..ddd616eb0bfe 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibjpeg-openjpeg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibjpeg-openjpeg/default.nix
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     rmdir lib/openjpeg
     cp -r ${openjpeg.src} lib/openjpeg
     chmod +rwX -R lib/openjpeg
+
+    substituteInPlace pyproject.toml --replace-fail "poetry-core >=1.8,<2" "poetry-core"
   '';
 
   dontUseCmakeConfigure = true;