diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
index e3b6378e3d9..ed26e335870 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-{ cabal, Cabal, filepath, hackageDb, HTTP, mtl, regexPosix }:
+{ cabal, Cabal, doctest, filepath, hackageDb, HTTP, mtl, regexPosix
+}:
 
 cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   pname = "cabal2nix";
-  version = "1.43";
-  sha256 = "00blyn8hxj7d0ib7gg0a2gk36scm1isr5m4xsi9nvqay3261b068";
+  version = "1.44";
+  sha256 = "1j2w5g75nir0ax9pvn1fyj5l1c4s84mbj400any9v0bpv624mffm";
   isLibrary = false;
   isExecutable = true;
   buildDepends = [ Cabal filepath hackageDb HTTP mtl regexPosix ];
+  testDepends = [ doctest ];
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix";
     description = "Convert Cabal files into Nix build instructions";