@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ defaultSelectSettings version = SelectSettings
4343 , disabledFlags = Set.fromList $ words "bytestring-in-base test-hlint"
4444 , allowedPackage = const $ Right ()
4545 , useGlobalDatabase = False
46− , skippedTests = empty
46+ , skippedTests =
47+ if version >= GhcMajorVersion 7 8
48+ then Set.singleton (PackageName "punycode") -- pulls in encoding
49+ else Set.empty
4750 , selectGhcVersion = version
4851 , selectTarballDir = "patching/tarballs"
4952 }