mdbook-linkcheck: drop

As the package is unmaintained upstream and incompatible with the
version 0.5+ of mdbook it has been dropped

nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md

@@ -243,6 +243,8 @@ See <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/481673>.
   `component.settings`. The unix module now supports using SSH keys from Kanidm via
   `services.kanidm.unix.sshIntegration = true`.
 
+- `mdbook-linkcheck` has been removed as it is unmaintained and incompatible with the latest version of `mdbook`. Users can instead migrate to `mdbook-linkcheck2`.
+
 - `glibc` has been updated to version 2.42.
 
   This version no longer makes the stack executable when a shared library requires this. A symptom

pkgs/by-name/md/mdbook-linkcheck/package.nix

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  rustPlatform,
-  pkg-config,
-  openssl,
-  testers,
-  mdbook-linkcheck,
-}:
-
-rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "mdbook-linkcheck";
-  version = "0.7.7";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "Michael-F-Bryan";
-    repo = "mdbook-linkcheck";
-    rev = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-ZbraChBHuKAcUA62EVHZ1RygIotNEEGv24nhSPAEj00=";
-  };
-
-  cargoHash = "sha256-Tt7ljjWv2CMtP/ELZNgSH/ifmBk/42+E0r9ZXQEJNP8=";
-
-  buildInputs = lib.optionals (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) [ openssl ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = lib.optionals (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) [ pkg-config ];
-
-  env.OPENSSL_NO_VENDOR = 1;
-
-  doCheck = false; # tries to access network to test broken web link functionality
-
-  passthru.tests.version = testers.testVersion { package = mdbook-linkcheck; };
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Backend for `mdbook` which will check your links for you";
-    mainProgram = "mdbook-linkcheck";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-linkcheck";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
-      zhaofengli
-      matthiasbeyer
-    ];
-  };
-})

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -1296,6 +1296,7 @@ mapAliases {
   matrix-synapse-tools.synadm = throw "'matrix-synapse-tools.synadm' has been renamed to/replaced by 'synadm'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   mcomix3 = throw "'mcomix3' has been renamed to/replaced by 'mcomix'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   mdbook-alerts = throw "'mdbook-alerts' has been removed because it is deprecated and natively supported by mdbook since version 0.5.0"; # Added 2026-01-07
+  mdbook-linkcheck = throw "'mdbook-linkcheck' has been removed and replaced by 'mdbook-linkcheck2' due to incompatibility with mdbook version 0.5.0+"; # Added 2026-03-03
   mdt = throw "'mdt' has been renamed to/replaced by 'md-tui'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   mediastreamer = throw "'mediastreamer' has been moved to 'linphonePackages.mediastreamer2'"; # Added 2025-09-20
   mediastreamer-openh264 = throw "'mediastreamer-openh264' has been moved to 'linphonePackages.msopenh264'"; # Added 2025-09-20