Overriding asciidoctor package in devShell

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Hello.

In one of my projects I need asciidoctor built with an additional dependency to enable html5s rendering backend.

And here’s the change I want (I’ve already submitted a patch upstream)
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/155265/files

Right now I’m pulling in this change into my devshell by overriding nixpkgs to my fork where the patch is already applied:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs = {
      url = "github:edio/nixpkgs/master"; # <- here's how I pull this change into my devshell
    };
    flake-utils = {
      url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
    };
  };
  outputs = { nixpkgs, flake-utils, ... }: flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
    let
      pkgs = import nixpkgs {
        inherit system;
      };
    in rec {
      devShell = pkgs.mkShell {
        buildInputs = with pkgs; [
          hugo
          imagemagick
          (pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "asciidoctor" ''${pkgs.asciidoctor-with-extensions}/bin/asciidoctor -r asciidoctor-html5s -b html5s "$@"'')
        ];
      };
    }
  );
}

Is there a way to bring this change into my devshell without overriding nixpkgs?

Thanks in advance for help!

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