diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/su/suidChroot/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/su/suidChroot/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a19d0e7de06e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/su/suidChroot/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "suid-chroot";
-  version = "1.0.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    sha256 = "1a9xqhck0ikn8kfjk338h9v1yjn113gd83q0c50k78xa68xrnxjx";
-    url = "http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/scottrix/linux/download/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace Makefile --replace /usr $out
-    sed -i -e '/chmod u+s/d' Makefile
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Setuid-safe wrapper for chroot";
-    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    platforms = with platforms; unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 3a439c5a67c6..e5657197be3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1759,6 +1759,7 @@ mapAliases {
   StormLib = stormlib; # Added 2024-01-21
   strawberry-qt5 = throw "strawberry-qt5 has been replaced by strawberry-qt6"; # Added 2024-11-22
   strelka = throw "strelka depends on Python 2.6+, and does not support Python 3."; # Added 2025-03-17
+  suidChroot = throw "'suidChroot' has been dropped as it was unmaintained, failed to build and had questionable security considerations"; # Added 2025-05-17
   sumneko-lua-language-server = lua-language-server; # Added 2023-02-07
   sumokoin = throw "sumokoin has been removed as it was abandoned upstream"; # Added 2024-11-23
   supertag = throw "supertag has been removed as it was abandoned upstream and fails to build"; # Added 2025-04-20