diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbclient/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbclient/default.nix
index 1b2071e7f0c587..0082bc32a28495 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbclient/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbclient/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 { lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, pythonOlder,
   async_generator, traitlets, nbformat, nest-asyncio, jupyter-client,
   pytest, xmltodict, nbconvert, ipywidgets
-, doCheck ? true
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "sha256-QMUsm148MfrsruafICs/U+ONfBxWPeD63enX7aD9r+g=";
   };
 
-  inherit doCheck;
+  doCheck = false; # Avoid infinite recursion
   checkInputs = [ pytest xmltodict nbconvert ipywidgets ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ async_generator traitlets nbformat nest-asyncio jupyter-client ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbconvert/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbconvert/default.nix
index 5a89210170fe2c..bfcf93b0708ebc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbconvert/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbconvert/default.nix
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     entrypoints bleach mistune jinja2 pygments traitlets testpath
     jupyter_core nbformat ipykernel pandocfilters tornado jupyter-client
     defusedxml beautifulsoup4
-    (nbclient.override { doCheck = false; }) # avoid infinite recursion
+    nbclient
     jupyterlab-pygments
   ];