diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 6c6864f0c4a..19a5581480c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -653,9 +653,6 @@ self: super: {
   # Test suite won't compile against tasty-hunit 0.9.x.
   zlib = dontCheck super.zlib;
 
-  # Override the obsolete version from Hackage with our more up-to-date copy.
-  cabal2nix = self.callPackage ../tools/haskell/cabal2nix {};
-
   # https://github.com/ndmitchell/shake/issues/206
   # https://github.com/ndmitchell/shake/issues/267
   shake = overrideCabal super.shake (drv: { doCheck = !pkgs.stdenv.isDarwin && false; });
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e6c9019f6d..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-{ mkDerivation, aeson, ansi-wl-pprint, base, bytestring, Cabal
-, containers, deepseq, directory, distribution-nixpkgs, fetchFromGitHub
-, filepath, hackage-db, language-nix, lens, monad-par
-, monad-par-extras, mtl, optparse-applicative, pretty, process, SHA
-, split, stackage-types, stdenv, text, time, transformers
-, utf8-string, yaml, makeWrapper, nix-prefetch-scripts
-}:
-mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "cabal2nix";
-  version = "20160613-10-g57dddc7";
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "nixos";
-    repo = "cabal2nix";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1nlybd4im80dwq70wqa5k4lji5g353cn6aqiz4v3x4v3fpn2i3qb";
-  };
-  isExecutable = true;
-  enableSharedExecutables = false;
-  libraryHaskellDepends = [
-    aeson ansi-wl-pprint base bytestring Cabal containers deepseq
-    directory distribution-nixpkgs filepath hackage-db language-nix
-    lens optparse-applicative pretty process SHA split text
-    transformers yaml
-  ];
-  executableHaskellDepends = [
-    aeson ansi-wl-pprint base bytestring Cabal containers deepseq
-    directory distribution-nixpkgs filepath hackage-db language-nix
-    lens monad-par monad-par-extras mtl optparse-applicative pretty
-    process SHA split stackage-types text time transformers utf8-string
-    yaml
-  ];
-  executableToolDepends = [ makeWrapper ];
-  postInstall = ''
-    exe=$out/libexec/${pname}-${version}/${pname}
-    install -D $out/bin/${pname} $exe
-    rm -rf $out/{bin,lib,share}
-    makeWrapper $exe $out/bin/${pname} --prefix PATH ":" "${nix-prefetch-scripts}/bin"
-    mkdir -p $out/share/bash-completion/completions
-    $exe --bash-completion-script $exe >$out/share/bash-completion/completions/${pname}
-  '';
-  homepage = "https://github.com/nixos/cabal2nix#readme";
-  description = "Convert Cabal files into Nix build instructions";
-  license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
-  maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.peti];
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b056fa69990..26b292f9374 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -640,7 +640,19 @@ in
     libtorrentRasterbar = libtorrentRasterbar_1_09;
   };
 
-  cabal2nix = self.haskellPackages.cabal2nix;
+  cabal2nix = self.haskell.lib.overrideCabal self.haskellPackages.cabal2nix (drv: {
+    isLibrary = false;
+    enableSharedExecutables = false;
+    executableToolDepends = [ self.makeWrapper ];
+    postInstall = ''
+      exe=$out/libexec/${drv.pname}-${drv.version}/${drv.pname}
+      install -D $out/bin/${drv.pname} $exe
+      rm -rf $out/{bin,lib,share}
+      makeWrapper $exe $out/bin/${drv.pname} --prefix PATH ":" "${self.nix-prefetch-scripts}/bin"
+      mkdir -p $out/share/bash-completion/completions
+      $exe --bash-completion-script $exe >$out/share/bash-completion/completions/${drv.pname}
+    '';
+  });
 
   caddy = callPackage ../servers/caddy { };