diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/comonad-transformers/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/comonad-transformers/default.nix
index ef0ffe06198..912b36057c0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/comonad-transformers/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/comonad-transformers/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,13 @@
-{ cabal, comonad, contravariant, distributive, semigroupoids
-, semigroups, transformers
-}:
+{ cabal, comonad }:
 
 cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   pname = "comonad-transformers";
-  version = "3.1";
-  sha256 = "024l437xfi0bkbn3121xi8slwsh9jby9a92qg1m5y0nmxzs9lxda";
-  buildDepends = [
-    comonad contravariant distributive semigroupoids semigroups
-    transformers
-  ];
+  version = "4.0";
+  sha256 = "13zzp6r6s6c80skniphwvzxhpazbyal5854m53139kgcw560rv6z";
+  buildDepends = [ comonad ];
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/ekmett/comonad-transformers/";
-    description = "Comonad transformers";
+    description = "This package has been merged into comonad 4.0";
     license = self.stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
     platforms = self.ghc.meta.platforms;
   };