diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 82ffa2a64e0c..52fafec10f83 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -2697,7 +2697,6 @@ extra-packages:
   - hoogle == 5.0.14                    # required by hie-hoogle
   - inline-c < 0.6                      # required on GHC 8.0.x
   - inline-c-cpp < 0.2                  # required on GHC 8.0.x
-  - language-c == 0.7.0                 # required by c2hs hack to work around https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/192.
   - mtl < 2.2                           # newer versions require transformers > 0.4.x, which we cannot provide in GHC 7.8.x
   - mtl-prelude < 2                     # required for to build postgrest on mtl 2.1.x platforms
   - network == 2.6.3.1                  # newer versions don't compile with GHC 7.4.x and below