diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 3ddd017b14f5..7b1981efff14 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -2011,6 +2011,7 @@ extra-packages:
   - haddock < 2.17                      # required on GHC 7.10.x
   - haddock-api == 2.15.*               # required on GHC 7.8.x
   - haddock-api == 2.16.*               # required on GHC 7.10.x
+  - haddock-library == 1.2.*            # required for haddock-api-2.16.x
   - hoogle < 5                          # required by current implementation of ghcWithHoogle
   - mtl < 2.2                           # newer versions require transformers > 0.4.x, which we cannot provide in GHC 7.8.x
   - mtl-prelude < 2                     # required for to build postgrest on mtl 2.1.x platforms