Remove unnecessary base-compat dependency

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd46043..e0e711d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ btls needs GHC, c2hs and a few Haskell libraries to build. On Debian,
 
 should get you everything you need; you can also run
 
-    apt install libghc-{base-compat,base16-bytestring,smallcheck,tasty,tasty-hunit,tasty-smallcheck}-dev
+    apt install libghc-{base16-bytestring,smallcheck,tasty,tasty-hunit,tasty-smallcheck}-dev
 
 if you want to install everything you can through APT instead of Cabal. Once
 you’ve done so, you can build and run the test suite.
diff --git a/btls.cabal b/btls.cabal
index acea7ae..dcfbb9e 100644
--- a/btls.cabal
+++ b/btls.cabal
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ library
   -- in OpenSSL.
   extra-libraries:     btls_crypto
   build-depends:       base >=4.9 && <4.10
-                     , base-compat >=0.9.3 && <0.10
                      , bytestring >=0.10 && <0.11
 
 test-suite tests