Weechat is broken after upgrade to 25.05

Hello.

So I was finally able to upgrade to 25.05 and I figured out that weechat serivice is broken.

Jun 06 23:09:35 machine systemd[1]: Started weechat.service.
Jun 06 23:09:35 machine weechat-start[22708]: Error accessing /var/empty/.screen
Jun 06 23:09:35 machine systemd[1]: weechat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 06 23:09:35 machine systemd[1]: weechat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I’m just using:

  services.weechat.enable = true;

in my configuration.nix file.

Possible workaround:

  services.weechat = {
    enable = true;
  };
  users.users.weechat = {
    isSystemUser = true;
    description = "Weechat system user";
    home = "/var/lib/weechat";
    createHome = true;
    shell = "${pkgs.shadow}/bin/nologin";
  };


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Bug already opened by someone else with different solution:

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