diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/manul/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/manul/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 377cd2856df5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/manul/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
-
-buildGoPackage {
-  pname = "manul";
-  version = "unstable-2016-09-30";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/kovetskiy/manul";
-  excludedPackages = "tests";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "kovetskiy";
-    repo = "manul";
-    rev = "7bddb5404b9ecc66fd28075bb899c2d6dc7a1c51";
-    sha256 = "06kglxdgj1dfpc9bdnvhsh8z0c1pdbmwmfx4km01wpppzk06dnvm";
-  };
-
-  deleteVendor = true;
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "The madness vendoring utility for Golang programs";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/kovetskiy/manul";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.mic92 ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/manul/deps.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/manul/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e99a597b0783..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/manul/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated by go2nix.
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery";
-      rev = "3cb3b8656883c2cc3deb9c643d93ea6e5157e425";
-      sha256 = "0qhyssjwv98jncsiph95iz77sygkismvpprsalqi3xm3k50xi6r7";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/andybalholm/cascadia";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/andybalholm/cascadia";
-      rev = "349dd0209470eabd9514242c688c403c0926d266";
-      sha256 = "12ikz849vkdb3dsdn6mdpkihvm0hbmkplyi0qdcm7s4ib4n003b1";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/kovetskiy/godocs";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/kovetskiy/godocs";
-      rev = "2d9428f80f3442e07f67daf7ba378cd0ff6cfe24";
-      sha256 = "128dlvxqk31crzl9p3ps0nir724cjzxv4lxpgdvsir0wvfp8f83j";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/reconquest/executil-go";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/reconquest/executil-go";
-      rev = "e72bce509b1a5e89ab21f29c92830d4304620765";
-      sha256 = "06z05hl4bym5agv0h1vgksj0mx0l4987ganwqcfb153w7pclvan3";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/reconquest/hierr-go";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/reconquest/hierr-go";
-      rev = "bbf802f3f943e7b6a364a485ccf90807f3bfcc0e";
-      sha256 = "1v3fssw881vcawc2abvp8abwb7705yzxrb0khbzmn8qvdpqwh7hl";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/reconquest/ser-go";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/reconquest/ser-go";
-      rev = "47f084a1e4a5433ac3d6ab6cfe8c1e30028a4d76";
-      sha256 = "1hgafiqc3mlazs2zg4rqjm4sasy2gjrjl64cy8mmlg5cayvbj4hq";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/crypto";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/crypto";
-      rev = "c197bcf24cde29d3f73c7b4ac6fd41f4384e8af6";
-      sha256 = "1y2bbghi594m8p4pcm9pwrzql06179xj6zvhaghwcc6y0l48rbgp";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/net";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/net";
-      rev = "6acef71eb69611914f7a30939ea9f6e194c78172";
-      sha256 = "1fcsv50sbq0lpzrhx3m9jw51wa255fsbqjwsx9iszq4d0gysnnvc";
-    };
-  }
-]
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index e380081d24ac..7b9c55ee702e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -833,6 +833,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   mail-notification = throw "mail-notification has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's unmaintained and has dependencies on old gnome libraries we want to remove"; # Added 2021-08-21
   mailpile = throw "mailpile was removed from nixpkgs, as it is stuck on python2"; # Added 2022-01-12
   man_db = throw "'man_db' has been renamed to/replaced by 'man-db'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
+  manul = throw "manul has been dropped due to the lack of maintenance from upstream since 2018"; # Added 2022-06-01
   manpages = throw "'manpages' has been renamed to/replaced by 'man-pages'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   marathon = throw "marathon has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's unmaintained"; # Added 2020-08-15
   mariadb-client = hiPrio mariadb.client; #added 2019.07.28
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 280a79821a39..5d53db14aa9d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -26864,8 +26864,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   manuskript = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/editors/manuskript { };
 
-  manul = callPackage ../development/tools/manul { };
-
   mindforger = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/editors/mindforger { };
 
   mi2ly = callPackage ../applications/audio/mi2ly {};