diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
index e3b6378e3d9..ed26e335870 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-{ cabal, Cabal, filepath, hackageDb, HTTP, mtl, regexPosix }:
+{ cabal, Cabal, doctest, filepath, hackageDb, HTTP, mtl, regexPosix
+}:
 
 cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   pname = "cabal2nix";
-  version = "1.43";
-  sha256 = "00blyn8hxj7d0ib7gg0a2gk36scm1isr5m4xsi9nvqay3261b068";
+  version = "1.44";
+  sha256 = "1j2w5g75nir0ax9pvn1fyj5l1c4s84mbj400any9v0bpv624mffm";
   isLibrary = false;
   isExecutable = true;
   buildDepends = [ Cabal filepath hackageDb HTTP mtl regexPosix ];
+  testDepends = [ doctest ];
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix";
     description = "Convert Cabal files into Nix build instructions";
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix
index 85499e893f8..e68e4cab349 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   }
 
   # Then you can install it by:  
-  #  $ nix-env -i sdl-env
+  #  $ nix-env -i env-sdl
   # And you can load it simply calling:  
   #  $ load-env-sdl
   # and this will update your env vars to have 'make' and 'gcc' finding the SDL
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-defaults.nix b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-defaults.nix
index a03f0a6fe46..f99e790de94 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-defaults.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-defaults.nix
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
       deepseq = self.deepseq_1_1_0_2;
       # deviating from Haskell platform here, to make some packages (notably statistics) compile
       jailbreakCabal = self.jailbreakCabal.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_14_0; };
+      cabal2nix = self.cabal2nix.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_14_0; hackageDb = self.hackageDb.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_16_0_3; }; };
     };
 
   ghc6121Prefs =
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@
       deepseq = self.deepseq_1_1_0_2;
       monadPar = self.monadPar_0_1_0_3;
       jailbreakCabal = self.jailbreakCabal.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_14_0; };
+      cabal2nix = self.cabal2nix.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_14_0; hackageDb = self.hackageDb.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_16_0_3; }; };
       # deviating from Haskell platform here, to make some packages (notably statistics) compile
     };
 
@@ -108,6 +110,7 @@
       deepseq = self.deepseq_1_1_0_2;
       monadPar = self.monadPar_0_1_0_3;
       jailbreakCabal = self.jailbreakCabal.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_14_0; };
+      cabal2nix = self.cabal2nix.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_14_0; hackageDb = self.hackageDb.override { Cabal = self.Cabal_1_16_0_3; }; };
       # deviating from Haskell platform here, to make some packages (notably statistics) compile
     };