diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix
index 8ca3dd727545..916530220526 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libical-${version}";
   version = "3.0.4";
 
-  outputs = [ "out" "dev" "devdoc" ];
+  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ]; #"devdoc" ];
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "libical";
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     perl pkgconfig cmake ninja vala gobject-introspection
     (python3.withPackages (pkgs: with pkgs; [ pygobject3 ])) # running libical-glib tests
-    gtk-doc docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_43 # docs
+# Docs building fails: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61657#issuecomment-495579489
+#    gtk-doc docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_43 # docs
   ];
   buildInputs = [ glib libxml2 icu ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libpsl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpsl/default.nix
index ac00920d054c..7e2443d31e92 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libpsl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpsl/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   configureFlags = [
     "--disable-static"
-    "--enable-gtk-doc"
+#    "--enable-gtk-doc"
     "--enable-man"
     "--enable-valgrind-tests"
     "--with-psl-distfile=${publicsuffix-list}/share/publicsuffix/public_suffix_list.dat"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gtk-doc/0001-highlight-fix-permission-on-file-style.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gtk-doc/0001-highlight-fix-permission-on-file-style.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7e37a1a5e5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gtk-doc/0001-highlight-fix-permission-on-file-style.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From 95a75c95c5c4e641ce7cda0ded968d66f07f822a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: worldofpeace <worldofpeace@protonmail.ch>
+Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 14:44:08 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] highlight: fix permission on file style
+
+---
+ gtkdoc/highlight.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/gtkdoc/highlight.py b/gtkdoc/highlight.py
+index 8f6e470..d11c432 100644
+--- a/gtkdoc/highlight.py
++++ b/gtkdoc/highlight.py
+@@ -47,6 +47,6 @@ def highlight_code(code, lang='c'):
+ 
+ 
+ def append_style_defs(css_file_name):
+-    os.chmod(css_file_name, stat.S_IWRITE)
++    os.chmod(css_file_name, 0o664)
+     with open(css_file_name, 'at', newline='\n', encoding='utf-8') as css:
+         css.write(HTML_FORMATTER.get_style_defs())
+-- 
+2.21.0
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gtk-doc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gtk-doc/default.nix
index f6083a78bf89..44b5384106ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gtk-doc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gtk-doc/default.nix
@@ -1,30 +1,59 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, perl, python3, libxml2Python, libxslt, which
-, docbook_xml_dtd_43, docbook_xsl, gnome-doc-utils, gettext, itstool, gnome3
+{ stdenv
+, fetchFromGitLab
+, meson
+, ninja
+, pkgconfig
+, python3
+, libxml2Python
+, docbook_xml_dtd_43
+, docbook_xsl
+, libxslt
+, gettext
+, gnome3
 , withDblatex ? false, dblatex
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "gtk-doc";
-  version = "1.29";
+  version = "1.30";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/${pname}/${stdenv.lib.versions.majorMinor version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1cc6yl8l275qn3zpjl6f0s4fwmkczngjr9hhsdv74mln4h08wmql";
+  src = fetchFromGitLab {
+    domain = "gitlab.gnome.org";
+    owner = "GNOME";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "GTK_DOC_${stdenv.lib.replaceStrings ["."] ["_"] version }";
+    sha256 = "05lr6apj3pd3s59a7k6p45k9ywwrp577ra4pvkhxvb5p7v90c2fi";
   };
 
   patches = [
     passthru.respect_xml_catalog_files_var_patch
+    # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-doc/issues/84
+    ./0001-highlight-fix-permission-on-file-style.patch
   ];
 
   outputDevdoc = "out";
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
-  buildInputs =
-    [ pkgconfig perl python3 libxml2Python libxslt docbook_xml_dtd_43 docbook_xsl
-      gnome-doc-utils gettext which itstool
-    ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional withDblatex dblatex;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    gettext
+    meson
+    ninja
+  ];
 
-  configureFlags = [ "--disable-scrollkeeper" ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    docbook_xml_dtd_43
+    docbook_xsl
+    libxslt
+    pkgconfig
+    python3
+    libxml2Python
+  ]
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional withDblatex dblatex
+  ;
+
+  mesonFlags = [
+    "-Dtests=false"
+    "-Dyelp_manual=false"
+  ];
 
   # Make pygments available for binaries, python.withPackages creates a wrapper
   # but scripts are not allowed in shebangs so we link it into sys.path.