diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/green-pdfviewer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/green-pdfviewer/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c3c8c95872e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/green-pdfviewer/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, poppler, pkg-config, gdk-pixbuf, SDL, gtk2 }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "green-pdfviewer";
-  version = "nightly-2014-04-22";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "schandinat";
-    repo = "green";
-    rev = "0b516aec17915d9742d8e505d2ed383a3bdcea61";
-    sha256 = "0d0lv33flhgsxhc77kfp2avdz5gvml04r8l1j95yjz2rr096lzlj";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ poppler gdk-pixbuf SDL gtk2 ];
-
-  patches = [
-    ./gdk-libs.patch
-  ];
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    make PREFIX=$out
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin $out/share/man1
-    make install PREFIX=$out MANDIR=$out/share
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/schandinat/green/";
-    description = "Viewer for PDF files, uses SDL and libpoppler";
-
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    license  = licenses.gpl3;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    mainProgram = "green";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/green-pdfviewer/gdk-libs.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/green-pdfviewer/gdk-libs.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cfcab32aac99..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/green-pdfviewer/gdk-libs.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-Common subdirectories: green.old/debian and green.new/debian
-diff -u green.old/green.h green.new/green.h
---- green.old/green.h	2016-06-12 18:11:56.779434416 -0700
-+++ green.new/green.h	2016-06-12 18:14:38.830557379 -0700
-@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@
- 
- 
- #include <stdbool.h>
--#include "glib/poppler.h"
-+#include "poppler.h"
-+#include "gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h"
-+#include "gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-core.h"
-+#include "gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-features.h"
-+#include "gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-enum-types.h"
-+ 
-+ #define GREEN_FULLSCREEN	0x0001
-+ 
- 
- 
- #define GREEN_FULLSCREEN	0x0001
-diff -u green.old/Makefile green.new/Makefile
---- green.old/Makefile	2016-06-12 18:11:56.779434416 -0700
-+++ green.new/Makefile	2016-06-12 18:13:09.591974048 -0700
-@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
- SDL_CFLAGS	:=	$$(sdl-config --cflags)
- SDL_LIBS	:=	$$(sdl-config --libs)
- 
-+GDKPIXBUF_CFLAGS	:=	$$(pkg-config gdk-pixbuf-2.0 --cflags)
-+GDKPIXBUF_LIBS	:=	$$(pkg-config gdk-pixbuf-2.0 --libs)
-+
-+GTK_CFLAGS	:=	$$(pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags)
-+GTK_LIBS	:=	$$(pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --libs)
-+
- 
- all: green
- 
-@@ -28,13 +34,14 @@
- 	$(INSTALL) green.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/
- 
- green: main.o green.o sdl.o
--	$(CC) $^ $(POPPLER_LIBS) $(SDL_LIBS) -o $@
-+	$(CC) $^ $(POPPLER_LIBS) $(SDL_LIBS) $(GDKPIXBUF_LIBS) $(GTK_LIBS) -o $@
- 
- main.o: main.c green.h
--	$(CC) $(CONFIG) $(CFLAGS) -c $< $(POPPLER_CFLAGS) -o $@
-+	$(CC) $(CONFIG) $(CFLAGS) $(GDKPIXBUF_CFLAGS) -c $< $(POPPLER_CFLAGS) -o $@
- 
- green.o: green.c green.h
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< $(POPPLER_CFLAGS) -o $@
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< $(POPPLER_CFLAGS)  $(GDKPIXBUF_CFLAGS) -o $@
- 
- sdl.o: sdl.c green.h
--	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< $(POPPLER_CFLAGS) $(SDL_CFLAGS) -o $@
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< $(POPPLER_CFLAGS) $(SDL_CFLAGS) $(GDKPIXBUF_CFLAGS) $(GTK_CFLAGS) -o $@
-+
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/crack-attack-1.1.14-gcc43.patch b/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/crack-attack-1.1.14-gcc43.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fb2910d128ee..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/crack-attack-1.1.14-gcc43.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- crack-attack-1.1.14/src/Game.h
-+++ crack-attack-1.1.14/src/Game.h
-@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
- #include <climits>
- #include <cstdlib>
- #include <cmath>
-+#include <cstring>
- 
- #ifdef __MINGW32__
- #  include <windows.h>
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/crack-attack-1.1.14-glut.patch b/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/crack-attack-1.1.14-glut.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4daea4c53a28..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/crack-attack-1.1.14-glut.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- crack-attack-1.1.14/src/Attack.cxx
-+++ crack-attack-1.1.14/src/Attack.cxx
-@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
-   int height = -1, width = -1;
-   
-   player_name[0] = '\0';
-+  glutInit(&argc, argv);
-   parseCommandLine(argc, argv, mode, port, host_name, player_name, height, width);
-   run_crack_attack(mode, port, host_name, player_name, height, width);
- 
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d3d347066462..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/cr/crack_attack/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, pkg-config, gtk2, libglut, SDL, SDL_mixer, libGLU, libGL, libXi, libXmu }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "crack-attack";
-  version = "1.1.14";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://savannah/crack-attack/crack-attack-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1sakj9a2q05brpd7lkqxi8q30bccycdzd96ns00s6jbxrzjlijkm";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    ./crack-attack-1.1.14-gcc43.patch
-    ./crack-attack-1.1.14-glut.patch
-  ];
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--enable-sound=yes"
-    "--prefix=${placeholder "out"}"
-    "--datadir=${placeholder "out"}/share"
-  ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ gtk2 libglut SDL SDL_mixer libGLU libGL libXi libXmu ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Fast-paced puzzle game inspired by the classic Super NES title Tetris Attack!";
-    mainProgram = "crack-attack";
-    homepage = "https://www.nongnu.org/crack-attack/";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gt/gtk-engine-bluecurve/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gt/gtk-engine-bluecurve/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 43cf8675735f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gt/gtk-engine-bluecurve/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, pkg-config, intltool, gtk2 }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "gtk-engine-bluecurve";
-  version = "1.0";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/art.gnome.org/archive/themes/gtk2/GTK2-Wonderland-Engine-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1nim3lhmbs5mw1hh76d9258c1p923854x2j6i30gmny812c7qjnm";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config intltool ];
-
-  buildInputs = [ gtk2 ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Original Bluecurve engine from Red Hat's artwork package";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/la/latencytop/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/la/latencytop/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index bee5fa9f28a7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/la/latencytop/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, glib, pkg-config, gtk2, util-linux }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "latencytop";
-  version = "0.5";
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    sed -i s,/usr,$out, Makefile
-
-    # Fix #171609
-    substituteInPlace fsync.c --replace /bin/mount ${util-linux}/bin/mount
-  '';
-
-  preInstall = "mkdir -p $out/sbin";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    urls = [ "http://latencytop.org/download/latencytop-${version}.tar.gz"
-     "http://dbg.download.sourcemage.org/mirror/latencytop-0.5.tar.gz" ];
-    sha256 = "1vq3j9zdab6njly2wp900b3d5244mnxfm88j2bkiinbvxbxp4zwy";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ ncurses glib gtk2 ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "http://latencytop.org";
-    description = "Tool to show kernel reports on latencies (LATENCYTOP option)";
-    mainProgram = "latencytop";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libmx/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libmx/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 643c671f7792..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libmx/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub
-, libtool, pkg-config, automake, autoconf, intltool
-, gobject-introspection, gtk2, gtk-doc
-, clutter, clutter-gtk
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "libmx";
-  version = "1.4.7";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "clutter-project";
-    repo = "mx";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-+heIPSkg3d22xsU48UOTJ9FPLXC7zLivcnabQOM9aEk=";
-  };
-
-  # remove the following superfluous checks
-  preConfigure = ''
-    substituteInPlace "autogen.sh" \
-      --replace '`which intltoolize`' '"x"' \
-      --replace '`which gtkdocize`' '"x"' \
-      --replace '`which autoreconf`' '"x"'
-  '';
-
-  configureFlags = [ "--enable-introspection"
-                     "--without-startup-notification"
-                     "--without-dbus"
-                     "--without-glade"
-                     "--without-clutter-imcontext"
-                     "--without-clutter-gesture"
-                   ];
-
-  configureScript = "sh autogen.sh";
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config automake autoconf intltool gobject-introspection ];
-  buildInputs = [
-    libtool
-    gtk2 gtk-doc clutter clutter-gtk
-  ];
-
-  # patch to resolve GL errors
-  # source : https://github.com/clutter-project/mx/pull/62
-  preBuild = ''
-    sed -i 's/GLushort/gushort/g' mx/mx-deform-texture.c
-    sed -i 's/GLfloat/gfloat/g' mx/mx-texture-frame.c
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "http://www.clutter-project.org/";
-    description = "Clutter-based toolkit";
-    mainProgram = "mx-create-image-cache";
-    longDescription = ''
-      Mx is a widget toolkit using Clutter that provides a set of standard
-      interface elements, including buttons, progress bars, scroll bars and
-      others. It also implements some standard managers. One other interesting
-      feature is the possibility setting style properties from a CSS format
-      file.
-    '';
-    license = licenses.lgpl21;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    platforms = with platforms; linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/rf/rftg/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/rf/rftg/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e30b7ff9a2e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/rf/rftg/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, gtk2, pkg-config }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-
-  pname = "rftg";
-  version = "0.9.4";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://keldon.net/rftg/rftg-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0j2y6ggpwdlvyqhirp010aix2g6aacj3kvggvpwzxhig30x9vgq8";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ gtk2.dev ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "http://keldon.net/rftg/";
-    description = "Implementation of the card game Race for the Galaxy, including an AI";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/vo/volnoti/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/vo/volnoti/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 560b9cce3fd4..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/vo/volnoti/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch
-, pkg-config, dbus, gdk-pixbuf, glib, libX11, gtk2, librsvg
-, dbus-glib, autoreconfHook, wrapGAppsHook3 }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "volnoti-unstable";
-  version = "2013-09-23";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "davidbrazdil";
-    repo = "volnoti";
-    rev = "4af7c8e54ecc499097121909f02ecb42a8a60d24";
-    sha256 = "155lb7w563dkdkdn4752hl0zjhgnq3j4cvs9z98nb25k1xpmpki7";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    # Fix dbus interface headers. See
-    # https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti/pull/10
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti/commit/623ad8ea5c3ac8720d00a2ced4b6163aae38c119.patch";
-      sha256 = "046zfdjmvhb7jrsgh04vfgi35sgy1zkrhd3bzdby3nvds1wslfam";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config autoreconfHook wrapGAppsHook3 ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    dbus gdk-pixbuf glib libX11 gtk2 dbus-glib librsvg
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Lightweight volume notification for Linux";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti";
-    license = licenses.gpl3;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 61f8f88d0745..026bbad72d20 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ mapAliases {
   inherit (libsForQt5.mauiPackages) communicator; # added 2022-05-17
   concurrencykit = throw "'concurrencykit' has been renamed to/replaced by 'libck'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   containerpilot = throw "'containerpilot' has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # Added 2024-06-09
+  crack_attack = throw "'crack_attack' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   crackmapexec = throw "'crackmapexec' has been removed as it was unmaintained. Use 'netexec' instead"; # 2024-08-11
   critcl = tclPackages.critcl; # Added 2024-10-02
   cudaPackages_10_0 = throw "CUDA 10.0 has been removed from Nixpkgs, as it is unmaintained upstream and depends on unsupported compilers"; # Added 2024-11-20
@@ -512,9 +513,11 @@ mapAliases {
   graylog-4_0 = throw "graylog 4.x is EOL. Please consider downgrading nixpkgs if you need an upgrade from 4.x to latest series."; # Added 2023-10-09
   graylog-4_3 = throw "graylog 4.x is EOL. Please consider downgrading nixpkgs if you need an upgrade from 4.x to latest series."; # Added 2023-10-09
   graylog-5_0 = throw "graylog 5.0.x is EOL. Please consider downgrading nixpkgs if you need an upgrade from 5.0.x to latest series."; # Added 2024-02-15
+  green-pdfviewer = throw "'green-pdfviewer' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   gringo = clingo; # added 2022-11-27
   grub2_full = grub2; # Added 2022-11-18
   gtetrinet = throw "'gtetrinet' has been removed because it depends on GNOME 2 libraries"; # Added 2024-06-27
+  gtk-engine-bluecurve = "'gtk-engine-bluecurve' has been removed as it has been archived upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   gtk2fontsel = throw "'gtk2fontsel' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream. GTK now has a built-in font chooser so it's no longer needed for newer apps"; # Added 2024-10-19
   gtkcord4 = dissent; # Added 2024-03-10
   gtkperf = throw "'gtkperf' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream"; # Added 2024-09-14
@@ -613,6 +616,7 @@ mapAliases {
   larynx = piper-tts; # Added 2023-05-09
   LASzip = laszip; # Added 2024-06-12
   LASzip2 = laszip_2; # Added 2024-06-12
+  latencytop = throw "'latencytop' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   latinmodern-math = lmmath;
   leafpad = throw "'leafpad' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream. Consider using 'xfce.mousepad' instead"; # Added 2024-10-19
   ledger_agent = ledger-agent; # Added 2024-01-07
@@ -641,6 +645,7 @@ mapAliases {
   libixp_hg = libixp;
   libjpeg_drop = throw "'libjpeg_drop' has been renamed to/replaced by 'libjpeg_original'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   liblastfm = throw "'liblastfm' has been renamed to/replaced by 'libsForQt5.liblastfm'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
+  libmx = throw "'libmx' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   liboop = throw "liboop has been removed as it is unmaintained upstream."; # Added 2024-08-14
   libpqxx_6 = throw "libpqxx_6 has been removed, please use libpqxx"; # Added 2024-10-02
   libpulseaudio-vanilla = libpulseaudio; # Added 2022-04-20
@@ -1096,6 +1101,7 @@ mapAliases {
   retroarchBare = retroarch-bare; # Added 2024-11-23
   retroarchFull = retroarch-full; # Added 2024-11-23
   retroshare06 = retroshare;
+  rftg = throw "'rftg' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   rigsofrods = rigsofrods-bin; # Added 2023-03-22
   ring-daemon = throw "'ring-daemon' has been renamed to/replaced by 'jami-daemon'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   rippled = throw "rippled has been removed as it was broken and had not been updated since 2022"; # Added 2024-11-25
@@ -1336,6 +1342,7 @@ mapAliases {
   virtscreen = throw "'virtscreen' has been removed, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # Added 2024-10-17
   vkBasalt = vkbasalt; # Added 2022-11-22
   vkdt-wayland = vkdt; # Added 2024-04-19
+  volnoti = throw "'volnoti' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   vuze = throw "'vuze' was removed because it is unmaintained upstream and insecure (CVE-2018-13417). BiglyBT is a maintained fork."; # Added 2024-11-22
   inherit (libsForQt5.mauiPackages) vvave; # added 2022-05-17
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c7748ec44227..fb418e73c0b0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1856,10 +1856,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   grc = python3Packages.callPackage ../tools/misc/grc { };
 
-  green-pdfviewer = callPackage ../applications/misc/green-pdfviewer {
-    SDL = SDL_sixel;
-  };
-
   gremlin-console = callPackage ../applications/misc/gremlin-console {
     openjdk = openjdk11;
   };