diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/paho-mqtt/1.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/paho-mqtt/1.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 437f7899fad0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/paho-mqtt/1.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  isPy3k,
-  pytestCheckHook,
-  mock,
-  six,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "paho-mqtt";
-  version = "1.6.1";
-  format = "setuptools";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "eclipse";
-    repo = "paho.mqtt.python";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-9nH6xROVpmI+iTKXfwv2Ar1PAmWbEunI3HO0pZyK6Rg=";
-  };
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [
-    pytestCheckHook
-    six
-  ] ++ lib.optionals (!isPy3k) [ mock ];
-
-  doCheck = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "paho.mqtt" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "MQTT version 3.1.1 client class";
-    homepage = "https://eclipse.org/paho";
-    license = licenses.epl10;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [
-      mog
-      dotlambda
-    ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 23ae502df25c..1ddc78232539 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -433,6 +433,8 @@ mapAliases ({
   opentracing = throw "The opentracing Python module was removed due to being unmaintained upstream. Use OpenTelemetry instead."; # Added 2024-12-09
   ordereddict = throw "ordereddict has been removed because it is only useful on unsupported python versions."; # added 2022-05-28
   pafy = throw "pafy has been removed because it is unmaintained and only a dependency of mps-youtube, itself superseded by yewtube"; # Added 2023-01-19
+  paho-mqtt_1 = throw "paho-mqtt_1 was removed because no package depends on it anymore"; # added 2025-03-05
+  paho-mqtt_2 = paho-mqtt; # added 2025-03-05
   pam = python-pam; # added 2020-09-07.
   PasteDeploy = pastedeploy; # added 2021-10-07
   pathlib = throw "pathlib was removed as it has been integrated in python standard library in version 3.4"; # added 2024-05-13
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e2245891d3c6..347b47bd98e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10164,9 +10164,7 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   paginate = callPackage ../development/python-modules/paginate { };
 
-  paho-mqtt_1 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/paho-mqtt/1.nix { };
-  paho-mqtt_2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/paho-mqtt/default.nix { };
-  paho-mqtt = paho-mqtt_2;
+  paho-mqtt = callPackage ../development/python-modules/paho-mqtt/default.nix { };
 
   paintcompiler = callPackage ../development/python-modules/paintcompiler { };