diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/statmake/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/statmake/default.nix
index 7de42d5bc945..13187285db31 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/statmake/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/statmake/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 { lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, poetry-core
 , attrs
+, buildPythonPackage
 , cattrs
+, fetchFromGitHub
 , fonttools
 , fs
+, importlib-metadata
+, poetry-core
 , pytestCheckHook
+, pythonOlder
 , ufo2ft
 , ufoLib2
 }:
@@ -14,14 +16,15 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "statmake";
   version = "0.4.1";
-
   format = "pyproject";
 
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "daltonmaag";
-    repo = "statmake";
+    repo = pname;
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "OXhoQAD4LEh80iRUZE2z8sCtWJDv/bSo0bwHbOOPVE0=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-OXhoQAD4LEh80iRUZE2z8sCtWJDv/bSo0bwHbOOPVE0=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -34,6 +37,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     fonttools
     # required by fonttools[ufo]
     fs
+  ] ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.8") [
+    importlib-metadata
   ];
 
   checkInputs = [
@@ -46,9 +51,21 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     # https://github.com/daltonmaag/statmake/pull/41
     substituteInPlace pyproject.toml \
       --replace 'requires = ["poetry>=1.0.0"]' 'requires = ["poetry-core"]' \
-      --replace 'build-backend = "poetry.masonry.api"' 'build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"'
+      --replace 'build-backend = "poetry.masonry.api"' 'build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"' \
+      --replace 'cattrs = "^1.1"' 'cattrs = ">= 1.1"'
   '';
 
+  disabledTests = [
+    # cattrs.errors.IterableValidationError: While structuring typing.List[statmake.classes.Axis]
+    # https://github.com/daltonmaag/statmake/issues/42
+    "test_load_stylespace_broken_range"
+    "test_load_stylespace_broken_multilingual_no_en"
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "statmake"
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Applies STAT information from a Stylespace to a variable font";
     homepage = "https://github.com/daltonmaag/statmake";