diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/da/dave/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/da/dave/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 638a790dc504..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/da/dave/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildGoModule,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-}:
-
-buildGoModule rec {
-  pname = "dave";
-  version = "0.5.0";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "micromata";
-    repo = "dave";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-JgRclcSrdgTXBuU8attSbDhRj4WUGXSpKTrUZ8mP5ns=";
-  };
-
-  vendorHash = "sha256-yo6DEvKnCQak+MrpIIDU4DkRhRP+HeJXLV87NRf6g/c=";
-
-  subPackages = [
-    "cmd/dave"
-    "cmd/davecli"
-  ];
-
-  ldflags = [
-    "-s"
-    "-w"
-    "-X main.version=${version}"
-    "-X main.builtBy=nixpkgs"
-  ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/micromata/dave";
-    description = "Totally simple and very easy to configure stand alone webdav server";
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ lunik1 ];
-    mainProgram = "dave";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 403a59eaad18..a7f851f9aa2d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ mapAliases {
   dart_stable = throw "'dart_stable' has been renamed to/replaced by 'dart'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   dart-sass-embedded = throw "dart-sass-embedded has been removed from nixpkgs, as is now included in Dart Sass itself.";
   dat = nodePackages.dat;
+  dave = throw "'dave' has been removed as it has been archived upstream. Consider using 'webdav' instead"; # Added 2025-02-03
   dbeaver = throw "'dbeaver' has been renamed to/replaced by 'dbeaver-bin'"; # Added 2024-05-16
   dbus-map = throw "'dbus-map' has been dropped as it is unmaintained"; # Added 2024-11-01
   deadpixi-sam = deadpixi-sam-unstable;