--- /dev/null
+commit 4115e196bde073d5deaa3759807a8647f3f3c6fa
+Author: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
+Date: Mon Nov 17 09:53:24 2014 +0100
+
+ Add support for `deepseq-1.4.0.0` (addresses #100)
+
+ The default method implementation has changed in `deepseq-1.4.0.0`.
+ (see haskell/deepseq#1 for details). This simply sets the `rnf`
+ implementation explicitly to avoid relying on the default method's
+ semantics.
+
+diff --git a/Data/Text.hs b/Data/Text.hs
+index 3bd34a7..b826acd 100644
+--- a/Data/Text.hs
++++ b/Data/Text.hs
+@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ import Prelude (Char, Bool(..), Int, Maybe(..), String,
+ (&&), (||), (+), (-), (.), ($), ($!), (>>),
+ not, return, otherwise, quot)
+ #if defined(HAVE_DEEPSEQ)
+-import Control.DeepSeq (NFData)
++import Control.DeepSeq (NFData(rnf))
+ #endif
+ #if defined(ASSERTS)
+ import Control.Exception (assert)
+@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ instance Exts.IsList Text where
+ #endif
+
+ #if defined(HAVE_DEEPSEQ)
+-instance NFData Text
++instance NFData Text where rnf !_ = ()
+ #endif
+
+ -- | This instance preserves data abstraction at the cost of inefficiency.