sloccount: drop

code is from 2004 and unmaintained both upstream and in nixpkgs. 'loccount' is a maintained reimplementation in golang and a good alternative

pkgs/by-name/sl/sloccount/package.nix

@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-{
-  fetchurl,
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  perl,
-  makeWrapper,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "sloccount";
-  version = "2.26";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.dwheeler.com/${pname}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0ayiwfjdh1946asah861ah9269s5xkc8p5fv1wnxs9znyaxs4zzs";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-  buildInputs = [ perl ];
-
-  # Make sure the Flex-generated files are newer than the `.l' files, so that
-  # Flex isn't needed to recompile them.
-  patchPhase = ''
-    for file in *
-    do
-      if grep -q /usr/bin/perl "$file"
-      then
-          echo "patching \`$file'..."
-          substituteInPlace "$file" --replace \
-            "/usr/bin/perl" "${perl}/bin/perl"
-      fi
-    done
-
-    for file in *.l
-    do
-      touch "$(echo $file | sed -es'/\.l$/.c/g')"
-    done
-  '';
-
-  makeFlags = [
-    "PREFIX=$(out)"
-    "CC=${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc"
-  ];
-
-  doCheck = true;
-  checkPhase = ''HOME="$TMPDIR" PATH="$PWD:$PATH" make test'';
-
-  preInstall = ''
-    mkdir -p "$out/bin"
-    mkdir -p "$out/share/man/man1"
-    mkdir -p "$out/share/doc"
-  '';
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    for w in "$out/bin"/*; do
-      isScript "$w" || continue
-      wrapProgram "$w" --prefix PATH : "$out/bin"
-    done
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)";
-
-    longDescription = ''
-      This is the home page of "SLOCCount", a set of tools for
-      counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number
-      of languages of a potentially large set of programs.  This suite
-      of tools was used in my papers More than a Gigabuck: Estimating
-      GNU/Linux's Size and Estimating Linux's Size to measure the SLOC
-      of entire GNU/Linux distributions, and my essay Linux Kernel
-      2.6: It's Worth More!  Others have measured Debian GNU/Linux and
-      the Perl CPAN library using this tool suite.
-    '';
-
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-
-    homepage = "https://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/";
-
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
-  };
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -1698,6 +1698,7 @@ mapAliases {
   skypeforlinux = throw "Skype has been shut down in May 2025"; # Added 2025-05-05
   slack-dark = throw "'slack-dark' has been renamed to/replaced by 'slack'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   slimerjs = throw "slimerjs does not work with any version of Firefox newer than 59; upstream ended the project in 2021. <https://slimerjs.org/faq.html#end-of-development>"; # added 2025-01-06
+  sloccount = throw "'sloccount' has been removed because it is unmaintained. Consider migrating to 'loccount'"; # added 2025-05-17
   slurm-llnl = slurm; # renamed July 2017
   sm64ex-coop = throw "'sm64ex-coop' was removed as it was archived upstream. Consider migrating to 'sm64coopdx'"; # added 2024-11-23
   smartgithg = smartgit; # renamed March 2025