diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.nix b/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.nix
index b400ce034b3e..979ec286d809 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.nix
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,22 @@
 { stdenv, lib, makeWrapper, perl, perlPackages }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "nixpkgs-lint-1";
+  pname = "nixpkgs-lint";
+  version = "1";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
   buildInputs = [ perl perlPackages.XMLSimple ];
 
   dontUnpack = true;
-  buildPhase = "true";
+  dontBuild = true;
 
   installPhase =
     ''
       mkdir -p $out/bin
       cp ${./nixpkgs-lint.pl} $out/bin/nixpkgs-lint
+      # make the built version hermetic
+      substituteInPlace  $out/bin/nixpkgs-lint \
+        --replace-fail "#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell" "#! ${lib.getExe perl}"
       wrapProgram $out/bin/nixpkgs-lint --set PERL5LIB $PERL5LIB
     '';