diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/xml-conduit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/xml-conduit/default.nix
index 3df8c163d63e..d932303dc5d2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/xml-conduit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/xml-conduit/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     blazeMarkup conduit hspec HUnit resourcet text transformers
     xmlTypes
   ];
+  jailbreak = true;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/snoyberg/xml";
     description = "Pure-Haskell utilities for dealing with XML with the conduit package";