diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
index 02b13c78628..770fafe59bf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
@@ -14307,7 +14307,6 @@ self: {
        libraryHaskellDepends = [ base system-filepath text ];
        executableHaskellDepends = [ base system-filepath text ];
        testHaskellDepends = [ base hspec system-filepath text ];
-       doCheck = false; # depends on an ancient version of hspec
        homepage = "http://github.com/rampion/ReadArgs";
        description = "Simple command line argument parsing";
        license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
@@ -95548,9 +95547,6 @@ self: {
        description = "A Haskell backend kernel for the IPython project";
        license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
        hydraPlatforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.none;
-       # GHC 8 not supported yet: https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell/issues/690
-       # GHC 7.10 build fails on various dependencies
-       broken = true;
      }) {};
 
   "ihaskell-aeson" = callPackage