diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 2f3ea3a4533..372d0c8e5c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -684,8 +684,26 @@ self: super: {
     '';
   });
 
-  # The standard libraries are compiled separately.
-  idris = generateOptparseApplicativeCompletion "idris" (dontCheck super.idris);
+  # * The standard libraries are compiled separately.
+  # * We need multiple patches from master to fix compilation with
+  #   updated dependencies (haskeline and megaparsec) which can be
+  #   removed when the next idris release (1.3.4 probably) comes
+  #   around.
+  idris = generateOptparseApplicativeCompletion "idris"
+    (doJailbreak (dontCheck
+      (appendPatches super.idris [
+        # compatibility with haskeline >= 0.8
+        (pkgs.fetchpatch {
+          url = "https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/commit/89a87cf666eb8b27190c779e72d0d76eadc1bc14.patch";
+          sha256 = "0fv493zlpgjsf57w0sncd4vqfkabfczp3xazjjmqw54m9rsfix35";
+        })
+        # compatibility with megaparsec >= 0.9
+        (pkgs.fetchpatch {
+          url = "https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/commit/6ea9bc913877d765048d7cdb7fc5aec60b196fac.patch";
+          sha256 = "0yms74d1xdxd1c08dnp45nb1ddzq54n6hqgzxx0r494wy614ir8q";
+        })
+      ])
+    ));
 
   # https://github.com/pontarius/pontarius-xmpp/issues/105
   pontarius-xmpp = dontCheck super.pontarius-xmpp;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index e0fde52b017..f74abe73ff5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -6996,7 +6996,6 @@ broken-packages:
   - identifiers
   - idiii
   - idna2008
-  - idris
   - IDynamic
   - ieee-utils
   - iexcloud