diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e5dc3dd54d34..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchzip, libiconv, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild, ncurses }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "ocaml-text";
-  version = "0.8";
-
-  src = fetchzip {
-    url = "https://github.com/vbmithr/ocaml-text/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "11jamdfn5s19a0yvl012q1xvdk1grkp4rkrn819imqrvdplqkn1y";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ocamlbuild ncurses libiconv ];
-
-  configurePhase = "iconv_prefix=${libiconv} ocaml setup.ml -configure";
-
-  createFindlibDestdir = true;
-
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "http://ocaml-text.forge.ocamlcore.org/";
-    description = "A library for convenient text manipulation";
-    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-    platforms = ocaml.meta.platforms or [];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index 417ce76331f9..f225afd14d76 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -928,8 +928,6 @@ let
 
     syslog-message = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/syslog-message { };
 
-    ocaml_text = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text { };
-
     ocaml-version = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-version { };
 
     ocf = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocf { };