diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/si/silver-searcher/bash-completion.patch b/pkgs/by-name/si/silver-searcher/bash-completion.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 30e8c72389b7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/si/silver-searcher/bash-completion.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
---- a/Makefile.am
-+++ b/Makefile.am
-@@ -9 +9 @@
--bashcompdir = $(pkgdatadir)/completions
-+bashcompdir = $(datadir)/bash-completion/completions
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/si/silver-searcher/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/si/silver-searcher/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6015d39697c6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/si/silver-searcher/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  autoreconfHook,
-  pkg-config,
-  pcre,
-  zlib,
-  xz,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "silver-searcher";
-  version = "2.2.0";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "ggreer";
-    repo = "the_silver_searcher";
-    rev = finalAttrs.version;
-    sha256 = "0cyazh7a66pgcabijd27xnk1alhsccywivv6yihw378dqxb22i1p";
-  };
-
-  patches = [ ./bash-completion.patch ];
-
-  env = {
-    # Workaround build failure on -fno-common toolchains like upstream
-    # gcc-10. Otherwise build fails as:
-    #   ld: src/zfile.o:/build/source/src/log.h:12: multiple definition of
-    #     `print_mtx'; src/ignore.o:/build/source/src/log.h:12: first defined here
-    # TODO: remove once next release has https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/1377
-    NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fcommon";
-  }
-  // lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux {
-    NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lgcc_s";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    autoreconfHook
-    pkg-config
-  ];
-  buildInputs = [
-    pcre
-    zlib
-    xz
-  ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/";
-    description = "Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster";
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ madjar ];
-    mainProgram = "ag";
-    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-  };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index bc8ede1d87e7..49e6f5739449 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1958,6 +1958,7 @@ mapAliases {
   sierra-breeze-enhanced = throw "'sierra-breeze-enhanced' has been removed, as it is only compatible with Plasma 5, which is EOL"; # Added 2025-08-20
   signal-desktop-bin = throw "'signal-desktop-bin' has been replaced by 'signal-desktop' which is built from source"; # Added 2026-03-02
   signal-desktop-source = throw "'signal-desktop-source' has been renamed to/replaced by 'signal-desktop'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
+  silver-searcher = throw "'silver-surfer' has been removed as it has seen no development since 2020 and is stuck on the obsolete pcre library";
   simpleBluez = warnAlias "'simpleBluez' has been renamed to 'simplebluez'" simplebluez; # Added 2026-02-18
   simpleDBus = warnAlias "'simpleDBus' has been renamed to 'simpledbus'" simpledbus; # Added 2026-02-12
   simplesamlphp = throw "'simplesamlphp' was removed because it was unmaintained in nixpkgs"; # Added 2025-10-17