diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
index 48aeab14d057..a9269a9e8a08 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ self: super:
   # https://github.com/spacchetti/spago/issues/512
   spago = self.callPackage ../tools/purescript/spago/spago.nix { };
 
-  nix-linter = self.callPackage ../../development/tools/analysis/nix-linter { };
-
   # Unofficial fork until PRs are merged https://github.com/pcapriotti/optparse-applicative/pulls/roberth
   # cabal2nix --maintainer roberth https://github.com/hercules-ci/optparse-applicative.git > pkgs/development/misc/haskell/hercules-ci-optparse-applicative.nix
   hercules-ci-optparse-applicative =
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/nix-linter/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/nix-linter/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7456dadefa2e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/nix-linter/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  mkDerivation,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  fixplate,
-  tasty,
-  tasty-hunit,
-  tasty-th,
-  streamly,
-  mtl,
-  path,
-  pretty-terminal,
-  text,
-  base,
-  aeson,
-  path-io,
-  cmdargs,
-  containers,
-  hnix,
-  bytestring,
-}:
-
-mkDerivation {
-  pname = "nix-linter";
-  version = "0.2.0.4";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "Synthetica9";
-    repo = "nix-linter";
-    rev = "ecdd50750fd3ffaff83c0637474b884a0c38f8b9";
-    sha256 = "0hm6iaamh1wlvqk8z4yfh4idgbclbsimxhlgflwz2hnv9mm12sf1";
-  };
-
-  isLibrary = false;
-  isExecutable = true;
-  libraryHaskellDepends = [ fixplate ];
-  executableHaskellDepends = [
-    streamly
-    mtl
-    path
-    pretty-terminal
-    text
-    base
-    aeson
-    cmdargs
-    containers
-    hnix
-    bytestring
-    path-io
-  ];
-  testHaskellDepends = [
-    tasty
-    tasty-hunit
-    tasty-th
-  ];
-
-  description = "Linter for Nix(pkgs), based on hnix";
-  homepage = "https://github.com/Synthetica9/nix-linter";
-  license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-  maintainers = [ ];
-
-  # doesn't build on ghc92
-  hydraPlatforms = lib.platforms.none;
-  broken = true;
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index b30c209d5036..afd79f028da5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1729,6 +1729,7 @@ mapAliases {
   nfstrace = throw "nfstrace has been removed, as it was broken"; # Added 2025-08-25
   nix-direnv-flakes = nix-direnv;
   nix-ld-rs = nix-ld; # Added 2024-08-17
+  nix-linter = throw "nix-linter has been removed as it was broken for 3 years and unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2025-09-06
   nix-plugin-pijul = throw "nix-plugin-pijul has been removed due to being discontinued"; # added 2025-05-18
   nix-repl = throw (
     # Added 2018-08-26
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c1a6a6b1cf8d..799482bf9c0f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15129,8 +15129,6 @@ with pkgs;
   nix-info = callPackage ../tools/nix/info { };
   nix-info-tested = nix-info.override { doCheck = true; };
 
-  nix-linter = haskell.lib.compose.justStaticExecutables (haskellPackages.nix-linter);
-
   nix-prefetch-github = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication nix-prefetch-github;
 
   inherit (callPackages ../tools/package-management/nix-prefetch-scripts { })
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-haskell.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-haskell.nix
index 005eea819505..9f045ae77346 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-haskell.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-haskell.nix
@@ -317,7 +317,6 @@ let
         nix-delegate
         nix-deploy
         nix-diff
-        nix-linter
         nix-output-monitor
         nix-script
         nix-tree