diff --git a/srcpkgs/pdf2htmlEX/template b/srcpkgs/pdf2htmlEX/template
index 0fec437866a..1b605c8bfdf 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pdf2htmlEX/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pdf2htmlEX/template
@@ -11,3 +11,8 @@ license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/coolwanglu/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum="320ac2e1c2ea4a2972970f52809d90073ee00a6c42ef6d9833fb48436222f0e5"
+
+# pdf2htmlEX is no longer under active development.
+# https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX/issues/733
+# https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX/pull/735 segfaults
+broken="incompatible with poppler-0.59"