diff --git a/build-constraints.yaml b/build-constraints.yaml
index c244e3ee..1384a0d1 100644
--- a/build-constraints.yaml
+++ b/build-constraints.yaml
@@ -5976,6 +5976,9 @@ packages:
         - sbv < 0 # MonadFail
         # https://github.com/psibi/fakedata/issues/5
         - fakedata < 0
+        # https://github.com/alevy/simple/issues/23
+        - simple < 0
+        - simple-session < 0
 
         # Round 2 transitive from Some more failures
         - Clipboard < 0 # via X11
@@ -6791,10 +6794,6 @@ expected-test-failures:
     # https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/4815
     - brittany
 
-    # ghc 8.8 MonadFail
-    # https://github.com/alevy/simple/issues/23
-    - simple
-
 # end of expected-test-failures
 
 # Benchmarks which are known not to build. Note that, currently we do not run