diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix
index 84ac38f6c4b8..56fff995095e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   buildPecl,
   lib,
+  php,
   fetchFromGitHub,
 }:
 
@@ -29,5 +30,6 @@ buildPecl {
     homepage = "https://xdebug.org/";
     license = lib.licenses.php301;
     maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+    broken = lib.versionAtLeast php.version "8.4";
   };
 }