diff --git a/build-constraints.yaml b/build-constraints.yaml
index 0f11824e..5f2875b7 100644
--- a/build-constraints.yaml
+++ b/build-constraints.yaml
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ packages:
         - parallel-io
         - text-binary
         - Chart-cairo < 0 # GHC 8.4 via cairo
-        - ghc-events < 0 # build failure with GHC 8.4
+        - ghc-events
         - monad-extras
         - optparse-simple
         - hpack