litecoin{,d}: drop

Our current version is from March 2023; there was a release with a
critical security fix in March of this year, and another one with more
security fixes two weeks ago. The listed maintainer has been inactive
in Nixpkgs for years and it seems nobody else is stepping up to keep
this package secure and updated. Let’s drop it until that changes.

pkgs/applications/blockchains/litecoin/default.nix

@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, mkDerivation, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, fetchpatch2
-, pkg-config, autoreconfHook
-, openssl, db48, boost, zlib, miniupnpc
-, glib, protobuf, util-linux, qrencode
-, AppKit
-, withGui ? true, libevent
-, qtbase, qttools
-, zeromq
-, fmt
-}:
-
-mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "litecoin" + lib.optionalString (!withGui) "d";
-  version = "0.21.2.2";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "litecoin-project";
-    repo = "litecoin";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-TuDc47TZOEQA5Lr4DQkEhnO/Szp9h71xPjaBL3jFWuM=";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "boost1770.patch";
-      url = "https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/boost1770.patch?h=litecoin-qt&id=dc75ad854af123f375b5b683be64aa14573170d7";
-      hash = "sha256-PTkYQRA8n5a9yR2AvpzH5natsXT2W6Xjo0ONCPJx78k=";
-    })
-
-    # Fix gcc-13 build by adding missing headers:
-    #   https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/pull/929
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "gcc-13.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/commit/6d1adb19aa79a8e8e140582759515bbd76816aa0.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-1y4Iz2plMw5HMAjl9x50QQpYrYaUd2WKrrAcUnQmlBY=";
-    })
-
-    # net: add compatibility for miniupnpc 2.2.8
-    # https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/pull/971
-    (fetchpatch2 {
-      url = "https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/commit/5dddffa3e1bbcc7a3e6963b4860ba2d675ca847b.patch?full_index=1";
-      hash = "sha256-F5GcL1RM91l04WrS3qYlV5zEcwyXrcRdmLLCqu1Hop0=";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config autoreconfHook ];
-  buildInputs = [ openssl db48 boost zlib zeromq fmt
-                  miniupnpc glib protobuf util-linux libevent ]
-                  ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [ AppKit ]
-                  ++ lib.optionals withGui [ qtbase qttools qrencode ];
-
-  configureFlags = [ "--with-boost-libdir=${boost.out}/lib" ]
-                   ++ lib.optionals withGui [
-                      "--with-gui=qt5"
-                      "--with-qt-bindir=${qtbase.dev}/bin:${qttools.dev}/bin" ];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  doCheck = true;
-  checkPhase = ''
-    ./src/test/test_litecoin
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    broken = (stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64) || stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
-    description = "Lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm";
-    longDescription= ''
-      Litecoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant payments
-      to anyone in the world. It is based on the Bitcoin protocol but differs
-      from Bitcoin in that it can be efficiently mined with consumer-grade hardware.
-      Litecoin provides faster transaction confirmations (2.5 minutes on average)
-      and uses a memory-hard, scrypt-based mining proof-of-work algorithm to target
-      the regular computers and GPUs most people already have.
-      The Litecoin network is scheduled to produce 84 million currency units.
-    '';
-    homepage = "https://litecoin.org/";
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ offline ];
-  };
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -659,6 +659,8 @@ mapAliases {
   lispPackages_new = throw "Lisp packages have been redesigned. See 'lisp-modules' in the nixpkgs manual."; # Added 2024-05-07
   lispPackages = throw "Lisp packages have been redesigned. See 'lisp-modules' in the nixpkgs manual."; # Added 2024-05-07
   lispPackagesFor = throw "Lisp packages have been redesigned. See 'lisp-modules' in the nixpkgs manual."; # Added 2024-05-07
+  litecoin = throw "litecoin has been removed as nobody was maintaining it and the packaged version had known vulnerabilities"; # Added 2024-11-24
+  litecoind = throw "litecoind has been removed as nobody was maintaining it and the packaged version had known vulnerabilities"; # Added 2024-11-24
   Literate = literate; # Added 2024-06-12
   llama = walk; # Added 2023-01-23
 

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -16626,12 +16626,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ledger-agent = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication ledger-agent;
 
-  litecoin  = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/blockchains/litecoin {
-    inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) AppKit;
-    boost = pkgs.boost177;
-  };
-  litecoind = litecoin.override { withGui = false; };
-
   monero-cli = callPackage ../applications/blockchains/monero-cli {
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) CoreData IOKit;
   };