diff --git a/build-constraints.yaml b/build-constraints.yaml
index 237c0052..03f7180b 100644
--- a/build-constraints.yaml
+++ b/build-constraints.yaml
@@ -6656,6 +6656,14 @@ packages:
       - test-framework-smallcheck < 0
       - tuple-sop < 0
       - uri-encode < 0
+      # next set of packages broken by packages above this line
+      - epub-metadata < 0
+      - hxt-css < 0
+      - hxt-curl < 0
+      - hxt-expat < 0
+      - hxt-tagsoup < 0
+      - mime-mail < 0
+      - text-conversions < 0
 
 
     "Stackage upper bounds":