nodePackages.prebuild-install: drop

doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
 
 - Ethercalc and its associated module have been removed, as the package is unmaintained and cannot be installed from source with npm now.
 
+- `nodePackages.prebuild-install` was removed because it appeared to be unmaintained upstream.
+  See [upstream's recommendations for alternatives](https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild-install#note).
+
 - `python3packages.pillow-avif-plugin` has been removed as the functionality is included in `python3packages.pillow` directly since version 11.3.
 
 ## Other Notable Changes {#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-notable-changes}

pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix

@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ mapAliases {
   inherit (pkgs) pnpm; # added 2024-06-26
   poor-mans-t-sql-formatter-cli = throw "'poor-mans-t-sql-formatter-cli' has been removed because it was unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2025-11-14
   postcss-cli = throw "postcss-cli has been removed because it was broken"; # added 2025-03-24
+  prebuild-install = throw "prebuild-install was removed because it appeared to be unmaintained upstream. See upstream's recommendations for alternatives here: https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild-install#note"; # Added 2025-12-14
   inherit (pkgs) prettier; # added 2025-05-31
   prettier_d_slim = pkgs.prettier-d-slim; # added 2023-09-14
   prettier-plugin-toml = throw "prettier-plugin-toml was removed because it provides no executable"; # added 2025-03-23

pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 , "lcov-result-merger"
 , "node2nix"
 , "postcss"
-, "prebuild-install"
 , "sass"
 , "semver"
 , "vega-cli"

pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix

@@ -21658,60 +21658,6 @@ in
     bypassCache = true;
     reconstructLock = true;
   };
-  prebuild-install = nodeEnv.buildNodePackage {
-    name = "prebuild-install";
-    packageName = "prebuild-install";
-    version = "7.1.3";
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "https://registry.npmjs.org/prebuild-install/-/prebuild-install-7.1.3.tgz";
-      sha512 = "8Mf2cbV7x1cXPUILADGI3wuhfqWvtiLA1iclTDbFRZkgRQS0NqsPZphna9V+HyTEadheuPmjaJMsbzKQFOzLug==";
-    };
-    dependencies = [
-      sources."base64-js-1.5.1"
-      sources."bl-4.1.0"
-      sources."buffer-5.7.1"
-      sources."chownr-1.1.4"
-      sources."decompress-response-6.0.0"
-      sources."deep-extend-0.6.0"
-      sources."detect-libc-2.0.3"
-      sources."end-of-stream-1.4.4"
-      sources."expand-template-2.0.3"
-      sources."fs-constants-1.0.0"
-      sources."github-from-package-0.0.0"
-      sources."ieee754-1.2.1"
-      sources."inherits-2.0.4"
-      sources."ini-1.3.8"
-      sources."mimic-response-3.1.0"
-      sources."minimist-1.2.8"
-      sources."mkdirp-classic-0.5.3"
-      sources."napi-build-utils-2.0.0"
-      sources."node-abi-3.74.0"
-      sources."once-1.4.0"
-      sources."pump-3.0.2"
-      sources."rc-1.2.8"
-      sources."readable-stream-3.6.2"
-      sources."safe-buffer-5.2.1"
-      sources."semver-7.7.1"
-      sources."simple-concat-1.0.1"
-      sources."simple-get-4.0.1"
-      sources."string_decoder-1.3.0"
-      sources."strip-json-comments-2.0.1"
-      sources."tar-fs-2.1.2"
-      sources."tar-stream-2.2.0"
-      sources."tunnel-agent-0.6.0"
-      sources."util-deprecate-1.0.2"
-      sources."wrappy-1.0.2"
-    ];
-    buildInputs = globalBuildInputs;
-    meta = {
-      description = "A command line tool to easily install prebuilt binaries for multiple version of node/iojs on a specific platform";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild-install";
-      license = "MIT";
-    };
-    production = true;
-    bypassCache = true;
-    reconstructLock = true;
-  };
   sass = nodeEnv.buildNodePackage {
     name = "sass";
     packageName = "sass";