diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/librdf/raptor.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/librdf/raptor.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 627d7a43869d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/librdf/raptor.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-  libxml2,
-  curl,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "raptor";
-  version = "1.4.21";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://download.librdf.org/source/raptor-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "db3172d6f3c432623ed87d7d609161973d2f7098e3d2233d0702fbcc22cfd8ca";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    libxml2
-    curl
-  ];
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    sed -e '/curl\/types/d' -i src/*.c src/*.h
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "RDF Parser Toolkit";
-    homepage = "https://librdf.org/raptor";
-    license = with lib.licenses; [
-      lgpl21
-      asl20
-    ];
-    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.marcweber ];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    # error: passing argument 2 of 'xmlSetStructuredErrorFunc' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 5cd67e0b58e4..5c89b8ac7b66 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -946,6 +946,7 @@ mapAliases {
   libquotient = libsForQt5.libquotient; # Added 2023-11-11
   librarian-puppet-go = throw "'librarian-puppet-go' has been removed, as it's upstream is unmaintained"; # Added 2024-06-10
   librdf = throw "'librdf' has been renamed to/replaced by 'lrdf'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
+  librdf_raptor = throw "librdf_raptor has been remove due to failing to build and being unmaintained"; # Added 2025-04-14
   LibreArp = librearp; # Added 2024-06-12
   LibreArp-lv2 = librearp-lv2; # Added 2024-06-12
   libreddit = throw "'libreddit' has been removed because it is unmaintained upstream. Consider using 'redlib', a maintained fork"; # Added 2024-07-17
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index deb2e805d58c..74de04a60503 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11064,8 +11064,6 @@ with pkgs;
     haskellLib = haskell.lib.compose;
   };
 
-  librdf_raptor = callPackage ../development/libraries/librdf/raptor.nix { };
-
   librdf_raptor2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/librdf/raptor2.nix { };
 
   librdf_rasqal = callPackage ../development/libraries/librdf/rasqal.nix { };