diff --git a/third_party/lisp/closure-common.nix b/third_party/lisp/closure-common.nix
index 7f7f79f85..164e75233 100644
--- a/third_party/lisp/closure-common.nix
+++ b/third_party/lisp/closure-common.nix
@@ -33,4 +33,9 @@ depot.nix.buildLisp.library {
     depot.third_party.lisp.trivial-gray-streams
     depot.third_party.lisp.babel #+rune-is-character
   ];
+
+  brokenOn = [
+    # TODO(sterni): fails when loading because it tries to access package.lisp at runtime
+    "ecl"
+  ];
 }
diff --git a/third_party/lisp/closure-html/default.nix b/third_party/lisp/closure-html/default.nix
index 1886ea2ec..5e9eacdcb 100644
--- a/third_party/lisp/closure-html/default.nix
+++ b/third_party/lisp/closure-html/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ let
       # delete unexported and unused double defun in sgml-dtd.lisp
       # which reference undefined CL-USER:*HTML-DTD* (!) which
       # unlike CLOSURE-HTML:*HTML-DTD* is not involved in the
-      # packages operation.
+      # package's operation.
       ./no-double-defun.patch
       # Patches html-parser.lisp to look for the distributed
       # dtd files and catalog in this source derivations out
@@ -62,4 +62,8 @@ depot.nix.buildLisp.library {
     depot.third_party.lisp.flexi-streams
     depot.third_party.lisp.closure-common
   ];
+
+  brokenOn = [
+    "ecl" # see closure-common
+  ];
 }
diff --git a/users/sterni/mblog/default.nix b/users/sterni/mblog/default.nix
index e9a1d304f..1211dea01 100644
--- a/users/sterni/mblog/default.nix
+++ b/users/sterni/mblog/default.nix
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
   main = "cli:main";
 
   brokenOn = [
-    "ecl"
+    "ecl" # closure-common fails to start up
   ];
 }).overrideAttrs (super: {
   # The built binary dispatches based on argv[0]. Building two executables would