diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/default.nix
index 6737f1260733..02f1cc691522 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/default.nix
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "python-magic";
-  version = "0.4.22";
+  version = "0.4.24";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "ahupp";
     repo = "python-magic";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "0zbdjr5shijs0jayz7gycpx0kn6v2bh83dpanyajk2vmy47jvbd6";
+    sha256 = "17jalhjbfd600lzfz296m0nvgp6c7vx1mgz82jbzn8hgdzknf4w0";
   };
 
   patches = [
@@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" ${python.interpreter} test/test.py
   '';
 
-  meta = {
+  meta = with lib; {
     description = "A python interface to the libmagic file type identification library";
     homepage = "https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/libmagic-path.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/libmagic-path.patch
index 5a1dbec7d51b..e9530d6ddf75 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/libmagic-path.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-magic/libmagic-path.patch
@@ -1,17 +1,28 @@
-diff --git a/magic/loader.py b/magic/loader.py
-index 6b2bfcb..69778af 100644
---- a/magic/loader.py
-+++ b/magic/loader.py
-@@ -5,11 +5,7 @@ import glob
- def load_lib():
-   libmagic = None
-   # Let's try to find magic or magic1
--  dll = ctypes.util.find_library('magic') \
--        or ctypes.util.find_library('magic1') \
--        or ctypes.util.find_library('cygmagic-1') \
--        or ctypes.util.find_library('libmagic-1') \
--        or ctypes.util.find_library('msys-magic-1')  # for MSYS2
-+  dll = '@libmagic@'
+diff --git i/magic/loader.py w/magic/loader.py
+index 931f161..b8096d1 100644
+--- i/magic/loader.py
++++ w/magic/loader.py
+@@ -35,16 +35,12 @@ def _lib_candidates():
  
-   # necessary because find_library returns None if it doesn't find the library
-   if dll:
+ 
+ def load_lib():
++  lib = '@libmagic@'
+ 
+-  for lib in _lib_candidates():
+-    # find_library returns None when lib not found
+-    if lib is None:
+-      continue
+-    try:
+-      return ctypes.CDLL(lib)
+-    except OSError:
+-      pass
+-  else:
+-    # It is better to raise an ImportError since we are importing magic module
+-    raise ImportError('failed to find libmagic.  Check your installation')
++  try:
++    return ctypes.CDLL(lib)
++  except OSError:
++    pass
+ 
++  # It is better to raise an ImportError since we are importing magic module
++  raise ImportError('failed to find libmagic.  Check your installation')