ethercalc: drop

Module and package were unmaintained, crusty, and the package cannot be
built with modern npm tooling because of some jank in its lockfile that
I cannot even begin to understand.

Also I hate node2nix-generated package sets.

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

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
   retained for packages that have not completed migration. `asio_1_10` has been removed as no packages depend on it anymore.
   `asio` also no longer propagates `boost` as it is used independent from `boost` in most cases.
 
+- Ethercalc and its associated module have been removed, as the package is unmaintained and cannot be installed from source with npm now.
+
 - `python3packages.pillow-avif-plugin` has been removed as the functionality is included in `python3packages.pillow` directly since version 11.3.
 
 ## Other Notable Changes {#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-notable-changes}

pkgs/servers/web-apps/ethercalc/default.nix

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{
-  stdenv,
-  pkgs,
-  lib,
-  nodejs_20,
-}:
-
-let
-  nodejs = nodejs_20;
-
-  nodePackages = import ./node-packages.nix {
-    inherit pkgs nodejs;
-    inherit (stdenv.hostPlatform) system;
-  };
-
-  ethercalc = lib.head (lib.attrValues nodePackages);
-
-  combined = ethercalc.override {
-    meta = {
-      description = "Online collaborative spreadsheet";
-      license = with lib.licenses; [
-        cpal10
-        artistic2
-        mit
-        asl20
-        cc0
-        mpl20
-      ];
-      homepage = "https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc";
-      maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ iblech ];
-      platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
-    };
-  };
-in
-combined

pkgs/servers/web-apps/ethercalc/generate.sh

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p nodePackages.node2nix
-
-# Run this script not via `./generate.sh`, but via `$PWD/generate.sh`.
-# Else `nix-shell` will not find this script.
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-cd -- "$(dirname -- "$BASH_SOURCE[0]")"
-
-node2nix \
-     --nodejs-14 \
-     --input node-packages.json \
-     --output node-packages-generated.nix \
-     --composition node-packages.nix \
-     --node-env ../../../development/node-packages/node-env.nix

pkgs/servers/web-apps/ethercalc/node-packages.json

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[
-  { "whitebophir": "git+https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc.git#b196277081d677be991d104e454a52d242ef0189" }
-]

pkgs/servers/web-apps/ethercalc/node-packages.nix

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# This file has been generated by node2nix 1.11.1. Do not edit!
-
-{
-  pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {
-    inherit system;
-  },
-  system ? builtins.currentSystem,
-  nodejs ? pkgs."nodejs_20",
-}:
-
-let
-  nodeEnv = import ../../../development/node-packages/node-env.nix {
-    inherit (pkgs)
-      stdenv
-      lib
-      runCommand
-      writeTextFile
-      writeShellScript
-      ;
-    inherit pkgs nodejs;
-    libtool = if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin then pkgs.cctools or pkgs.darwin.cctools else null;
-  };
-in
-import ./node-packages-generated.nix {
-  inherit (pkgs)
-    fetchurl
-    nix-gitignore
-    stdenv
-    lib
-    fetchgit
-    ;
-  inherit nodeEnv;
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ mapAliases {
   eris-go = throw "'eris-go' has been removed due to a hostile upstream moving tags and breaking src FODs"; # Added 2025-09-01
   eriscmd = throw "'eriscmd' has been removed due to a hostile upstream moving tags and breaking src FODs"; # Added 2025-09-01
   erlang-ls = throw "'erlang-ls' has been removed as it has been archived upstream. Consider using 'erlang-language-platform' instead"; # Added 2025-10-02
+  ethercalc = throw "'ethercalc' has been removed from nixpkgs as the project was old, unmaintained, and could not be packaged well in nixpkgs"; # Added 2025-11-28
   ethersync = warnAlias "'ethersync' has been renamed to 'teamtype'" teamtype; # Added 2025-10-31
   eww-wayland = throw "'eww-wayland' has been renamed to/replaced by 'eww'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   f3d_egl = warnAlias "'f3d' now build with egl support by default, so `f3d_egl` is deprecated, consider using 'f3d' instead." f3d; # Added 2025-07-18

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -2613,8 +2613,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   emborg = python3Packages.callPackage ../development/python-modules/emborg { };
 
-  ethercalc = callPackage ../servers/web-apps/ethercalc { };
-
   evtest-qt = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/evtest-qt { };
 
   executor = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication executor;