diff --git a/srcpkgs/obnam/template b/srcpkgs/obnam/template
index e7cfe79c9fa..8e992f77a54 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/obnam/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/obnam/template
@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ homepage="http://obnam.org"
 license="GPL-3"
 distfiles="http://code.liw.fi/debian/pool/main/o/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${version}.orig.tar.xz"
 checksum=7d584615015724b1aad72c874b8ffff682ed79e57b58136bfd68b6cb965e6a7c
+broken="UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 815: ordinal not in range"
 
 export TERM=vt100