diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index c7c42c1add7..77498619abd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ self: super: {
   # https://github.com/alphaHeavy/lzma-enumerator/issues/3
   lzma-enumerator = dontCheck super.lzma-enumerator;
 
+  # https://github.com/haskell-hvr/lzma/issues/8
+  lzma = appendPatch super.lzma ./patches/lzma-tests.patch;
+
   # https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc/issues/140
   BNFC = dontCheck super.BNFC;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/patches/lzma-tests.patch b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/patches/lzma-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e4e327ab6bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/patches/lzma-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- a/lzma.cabal
++++ b/lzma.cabal
+@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ test-suite lzma-tests
+                      , base
+                      , bytestring
+   -- additional dependencies that require version bounds
+-  build-depends:       HUnit                      >= 1.2      && <1.4
+-                     , QuickCheck                 >= 2.8      && <2.9
++  build-depends:       HUnit                      >= 1.2      && <2
++                     , QuickCheck                 >= 2.8      && <3
+                      , tasty                      >= 0.10     && <0.12
+                      , tasty-hunit                == 0.9.*
+                      , tasty-quickcheck           >= 0.8.3.2  && < 0.9