diff --git a/pandoc.cabal b/pandoc.cabal
index e46cb3a95..7f30d72f8 100644
--- a/pandoc.cabal
+++ b/pandoc.cabal
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Library
                  SHA >= 1.6 && < 1.7,
                  haddock-library >= 1.1 && < 1.3,
                  old-time,
-                 deepseq-generics >= 0.1 && < 0.2,
+                 deepseq >= 1.3 && < 1.5,
                  JuicyPixels >= 3.1.6.1 && < 3.3,
                  filemanip >= 0.3 && < 0.4,
                  cmark >= 0.5 && < 0.6,
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/EPUB.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/EPUB.hs
index 79aa540f6..07d282708 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/EPUB.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/EPUB.hs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import Control.Monad (guard, liftM, when)
 import Data.List (isPrefixOf, isInfixOf)
 import Data.Maybe (mapMaybe, fromMaybe)
 import qualified Data.Map as M (Map, lookup, fromList, elems)
-import Control.DeepSeq.Generics (deepseq, NFData)
+import Control.DeepSeq (deepseq, NFData)
 
 import Debug.Trace (trace)