diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/epdfview/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/epdfview/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index ec43e5a18ca6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/epdfview/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, pkg-config, gtk2, poppler }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "epdfview";
-  version = "0.1.8";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://debian/pool/main/e/epdfview/epdfview_${version}.orig.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0ibyb60a0b4n34bsjgvhdw8yf24463ky0hpmf6a2jjqsbm5g4v64";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ gtk2 poppler ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  patches = [ (fetchpatch {
-                name = "epdfview-0.1.8-glib2-headers.patch";
-                url = "https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/epdfview-0.1.8-glib2-headers.patch?h=packages/epdfview&id=40ba115c860bdec31d03a30fa594a7ec2864d634";
-                sha256 = "17df6s1zij5ficj67xszq6kd88cy620az3ic55065ccnmsd73f8h";
-              })
-              (fetchpatch {
-                name = "epdfview-0.1.8-modern-cups.patch";
-                url = "https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/epdfview-0.1.8-modern-cups.patch?h=packages/epdfview&id=40ba115c860bdec31d03a30fa594a7ec2864d634";
-                sha256 = "07yvgvai2bvbr5fa1mv6lg7nqr0qyryjn1xyjlh8nidg9k9vv001";
-              })
-            ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/epdfview";
-    description = "Lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK";
-    longDescription = ''
-      ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and
-      GTK libraries. The aim of ePDFView is to make a simple PDF document
-      viewer, in the lines of Evince but without using the Gnome libraries.
-    '';
-    license = licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.astsmtl ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    mainProgram = "epdfview";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 0e92c1b50912..5cbb59c38390 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ mapAliases {
 
   EmptyEpsilon = empty-epsilon; # Added 2024-07-14
   enyo-doom = enyo-launcher; # Added 2022-09-09
+  epdfview = throw "'epdfview' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream. Consider using 'qpdfview' instead"; # Added 2024-10-19
   epoxy = throw "'epoxy' has been renamed to/replaced by 'libepoxy'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
 
   erlang_27-rc3 = throw "erlang_27-rc3 has been removed in favor of erlang_27"; # added 2024-05-20
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f3599d4f8545..37c8ca584fdf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -28870,8 +28870,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   eos-installer = callPackage ../applications/misc/eos-installer { };
 
-  epdfview = callPackage ../applications/misc/epdfview { };
-
   epeg = callPackage ../applications/graphics/epeg { };
 
   epgstation = callPackage ../applications/video/epgstation { };