diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index c03825a0f4e..175c20be0cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1389,4 +1389,7 @@ self: super: {
   # prettyprinter-1.6.0 fails its doctest suite.
   prettyprinter_1_6_0 = dontCheck super.prettyprinter_1_6_0;
 
+  # the test suite has an overly tight restriction on doctest
+  perhaps = doJailbreak super.perhaps;
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 0f9d949ef4e..fc6f31802d2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -7942,7 +7942,6 @@ broken-packages:
   - perfect-vector-shuffle
   - PerfectHash
   - perfecthash
-  - perhaps
   - periodic
   - perm
   - permutations