diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/bl/bluez-headers/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/bl/bluez-headers/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e9ee013982e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/bl/bluez-headers/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchurl,
+}:
+
+# This package only provides the bluetooth headers from the bluez package
+# for consumption in Python, which cannot consume bluez.dev due to multiple
+# infinite recursion paths.
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "bluez-headers";
+  version = "5.83";
+
+  # This package has the source, because of the emulatorAvailable check in the
+  # bluez function args, that causes an infinite recursion with Python on cross
+  # builds.
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://kernel/linux/bluetooth/bluez-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.xz";
+    hash = "sha256-EIUi2QnSIFgTmb/sk9qrYgNVOc7vPdo+eZcHhcY70kw=";
+  };
+
+  dontConfigure = true;
+  dontBuild = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/include/bluetooth
+    cp -v lib/*.h "$out/include/bluetooth/"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://www.bluez.org/";
+    description = "Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack";
+    changelog = "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=${finalAttrs.version}";
+    license = with lib.licenses; [
+      bsd2
+      gpl2Plus
+      lgpl21Plus
+      mit
+    ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/bl/bluez/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/bl/bluez/package.nix
index 7b11f0fefbec..8228902a3c38 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/bl/bluez/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/bl/bluez/package.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   stdenv,
   alsa-lib,
   autoreconfHook,
+  bluez-headers,
   dbus,
   docutils,
   ell,
@@ -28,12 +29,7 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "bluez";
-  version = "5.83";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://kernel/linux/bluetooth/bluez-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.xz";
-    hash = "sha256-EIUi2QnSIFgTmb/sk9qrYgNVOc7vPdo+eZcHhcY70kw=";
-  };
+  inherit (bluez-headers) version src;
 
   patches = [
     (fetchurl {
@@ -186,18 +182,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     url = "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git";
   };
 
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://www.bluez.org/";
-    description = "Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack";
-    changelog = "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=${finalAttrs.version}";
-    license = with lib.licenses; [
-      bsd2
-      gpl2Plus
-      lgpl21Plus
-      mit
-    ];
+  meta = bluez-headers.meta // {
     mainProgram = "btinfo";
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
   };
 })