diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/repocheck/default.nix b/pkgs/by-name/re/repocheck/package.nix
similarity index 50%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/repocheck/default.nix
rename to pkgs/by-name/re/repocheck/package.nix
index d5df17ae89fd..846d7770dee5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/repocheck/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/re/repocheck/package.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,28 @@
 {
   lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  python3Packages,
 }:
 
-buildPythonPackage rec {
+python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "repocheck";
-  version = "2015-08-05";
-  format = "setuptools";
+  version = "1.0.0";
+  pyproject = true;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    sha256 = "1jc4v5zy7z7xlfmbfzvyzkyz893f5x2k6kvb3ni3rn2df7jqhc81";
-    rev = "ee48d0e88d3f5814d24a8d1f22d5d83732824688";
-    repo = "repocheck";
     owner = "kynikos";
+    repo = "repocheck";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-pCz+oAfDFyDeuXumfNzLTXnftM9+IG+lZzWSKtbZ9dg=";
   };
 
+  build-system = [ python3Packages.setuptools ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "repocheck" ];
+
+  # no tests
+  doCheck = false;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     inherit (src.meta) homepage;
     description = "Check the status of code repositories under a root directory";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 6255cdb9559e..fbe15f318a1b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -573,6 +573,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   recursivePthLoader = recursive-pth-loader; # added 2024-01-07
   rednose = throw "rednose is no longer maintained (since February 2018)"; # added 2023-08-06
   repeated_test = repeated-test; # added 2022-11-15
+  repocheck = throw "repocheck has been promoted to a top-level attribute name: `pkgs.repocheck`"; # Added 2024-11-03
   reportengine = throw "reportengine has been removed, since it is unmaintained and broken"; # added 2024-08-21
   repoze_lru = repoze-lru; # added 2023-11-11
   repoze_sphinx_autointerface = repoze-sphinx-autointerface; # added 2023-11-11
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 429832b1dfa2..2112cb7c5f40 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13659,8 +13659,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   replicate = callPackage ../development/python-modules/replicate { };
 
-  repocheck = callPackage ../development/python-modules/repocheck { };
-
   reportlab = callPackage ../development/python-modules/reportlab { };
 
   reportlab-qrcode = callPackage ../development/python-modules/reportlab-qrcode { };