diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-language-server/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-language-server/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e0de396b7c76..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-language-server/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, pythonAtLeast, pythonOlder, isPy27
-, backports_functools_lru_cache ? null, configparser ? null, futures ? null, future, jedi, pluggy, python-jsonrpc-server, flake8
-, pytestCheckHook, mock, pytest-cov, coverage, setuptools, ujson, flaky
-, # Allow building a limited set of providers, e.g. ["pycodestyle"].
-  providers ? ["*"]
-  # The following packages are optional and
-  # can be overwritten with null as your liking.
-, autopep8 ? null
-, mccabe ? null
-, pycodestyle ? null
-, pydocstyle ? null
-, pyflakes ? null
-, pylint ? null
-, rope ? null
-, yapf ? null
-}:
-
-let
-  withProvider = p: builtins.elem "*" providers || builtins.elem p providers;
-in
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "python-language-server";
-  version = "0.36.2";
-  # https://github.com/palantir/python-language-server/issues/896#issuecomment-752790868
-  disabled = pythonAtLeast "3.9";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "palantir";
-    repo = "python-language-server";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "07x6jr4z20jxn03bxblwc8vk0ywha492cgwfhj7q97nb5cm7kx0q";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    # Reading the changelog I don't expect an API break in pycodestyle and pyflakes
-    substituteInPlace setup.py \
-      --replace "pycodestyle>=2.6.0,<2.7.0" "pycodestyle>=2.6.0,<2.8.0" \
-      --replace "jedi>=0.17.2,<0.18.0" "jedi>=0.17.2,<0.19.0" \
-      --replace "pyflakes>=2.2.0,<2.3.0" "pyflakes>=2.2.0,<2.4.0"
-  '';
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ setuptools jedi pluggy future python-jsonrpc-server ujson ]
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "autopep8") autopep8
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "mccabe") mccabe
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "pycodestyle") pycodestyle
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "pydocstyle") pydocstyle
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "pyflakes") pyflakes
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "pylint") pylint
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "rope") rope
-    ++ lib.optional (withProvider "yapf") yapf
-    ++ lib.optional isPy27 configparser
-    ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.2") [ backports_functools_lru_cache futures ];
-
-  # The tests require all the providers, disable otherwise.
-  doCheck = providers == ["*"];
-
-  checkInputs = [
-    pytestCheckHook mock pytest-cov coverage flaky
-    # Do not propagate flake8 or it will enable pyflakes implicitly
-    flake8
-    # rope is technically a dependency, but we don't add it by default since we
-    # already have jedi, which is the preferred option
-    rope
-  ];
-
-  dontUseSetuptoolsCheck = true;
-
-  preCheck = ''
-    export HOME=$TEMPDIR
-  '';
-
-  # Tests failed since update to 0.31.8
-  disabledTests = [
-    "test_pyqt_completion"
-    "test_numpy_completions"
-    "test_pandas_completions"
-    "test_matplotlib_completions"
-    "test_snippet_parsing"
-    "test_numpy_hover"
-    "test_symbols"
-  ] ++ lib.optional isPy27 "test_flake8_lint";
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/palantir/python-language-server";
-    description = "An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for Python";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    # no longer maintained
-    # see https://github.com/palantir/python-language-server/pull/918#issuecomment-817361554
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index b5f3a9b39a31..3ef407116a43 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   python-lz4 = lz4; # added 2018-06-01
   python_magic = python-magic; # added 2022-05-07
   python_mimeparse = python-mimeparse; # added 2021-10-31
+  python-language-server = throw "python-language-server is no longer maintained, use the python-lsp-server community fork instead."; # Added 2022-08-03
   python-subunit = subunit; # added 2021-09-10
   pytest_xdist = pytest-xdist; # added 2021-01-04
   python_simple_hipchat = python-simple-hipchat; # added 2021-07-21
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 6d65e1402ec6..66212123d5cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -8640,8 +8640,6 @@ in {
 
   python_keyczar = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python_keyczar { };
 
-  python-language-server = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-language-server { };
-
   python-ldap-test = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-ldap-test { };
 
   python-Levenshtein = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-levenshtein { };