diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/Gemfile b/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/Gemfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 483fc40ff799..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/Gemfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-source "https://rubygems.org"
-
-gem "jsduck"
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/Gemfile.lock b/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/Gemfile.lock
deleted file mode 100644
index d8331181652b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/Gemfile.lock
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-GEM
-  remote: https://rubygems.org/
-  specs:
-    dimensions (1.2.0)
-    jsduck (5.3.4)
-      dimensions (~> 1.2.0)
-      json (~> 1.8.0)
-      parallel (~> 0.7.1)
-      rdiscount (~> 2.1.6)
-      rkelly-remix (~> 0.0.4)
-    json (1.8.6)
-    parallel (0.7.1)
-    rdiscount (2.1.8)
-    rkelly-remix (0.0.7)
-
-PLATFORMS
-  ruby
-
-DEPENDENCIES
-  jsduck
-
-BUNDLED WITH
-   2.1.4
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/gemset.nix b/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/gemset.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 25a0fdf7289f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/gemset.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-{
-  dimensions = {
-    source = {
-      remotes = [ "https://rubygems.org" ];
-      sha256 = "1pqb7yzjcpbgbyi196ifqbd1wy570cn12bkzcvpcha4xilhajja0";
-      type = "gem";
-    };
-    version = "1.2.0";
-  };
-  jsduck = {
-    dependencies = [
-      "dimensions"
-      "json"
-      "parallel"
-      "rdiscount"
-      "rkelly-remix"
-    ];
-    source = {
-      remotes = [ "https://rubygems.org" ];
-      sha256 = "0hac7g9g6gg10bigbm8dskwwbv1dfch8ca353gh2bkwf244qq2xr";
-      type = "gem";
-    };
-    version = "5.3.4";
-  };
-  json = {
-    source = {
-      remotes = [ "https://rubygems.org" ];
-      sha256 = "0qmj7fypgb9vag723w1a49qihxrcf5shzars106ynw2zk352gbv5";
-      type = "gem";
-    };
-    version = "1.8.6";
-  };
-  parallel = {
-    source = {
-      remotes = [ "https://rubygems.org" ];
-      sha256 = "1kzz6ydg7r23ks2b7zbpx4vz3h186n19vhgnjcwi7xwd6h2f1fsq";
-      type = "gem";
-    };
-    version = "0.7.1";
-  };
-  rdiscount = {
-    source = {
-      remotes = [ "https://rubygems.org" ];
-      sha256 = "0vcyy90r6wfg0b0y5wqp3d25bdyqjbwjhkm1xy9jkz9a7j72n70v";
-      type = "gem";
-    };
-    version = "2.1.8";
-  };
-  rkelly-remix = {
-    source = {
-      remotes = [ "https://rubygems.org" ];
-      sha256 = "1g7hjl9nx7f953y7lncmfgp0xgxfxvgfm367q6da9niik6rp1y3j";
-      type = "gem";
-    };
-    version = "0.0.7";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index ccd1538e4f77..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/js/jsduck/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-{
-  stdenv,
-  lib,
-  bundlerEnv,
-  makeWrapper,
-  bundlerUpdateScript,
-}:
-let
-  rubyEnv = bundlerEnv {
-    name = "jsduck";
-    gemfile = ./Gemfile;
-    lockfile = ./Gemfile.lock;
-    gemset = ./gemset.nix;
-  };
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "jsduck";
-  version = (import ./gemset.nix).jsduck.version;
-
-  dontUnpack = true;
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-  buildInputs = [ rubyEnv ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    makeWrapper ${rubyEnv}/bin/jsduck $out/bin/jsduck
-  '';
-
-  passthru.updateScript = bundlerUpdateScript "jsduck";
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Simple JavaScript Duckumentation generator";
-    mainProgram = "jsduck";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck";
-    license = with licenses; gpl3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [
-      periklis
-      nicknovitski
-    ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    # rdiscount fails to compile with:
-    # mktags.c:44:1: error: return type defaults to ‘int’ [-Wimplicit-int]
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 8907b04285ff..f3a73fd22499 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ mapAliases {
   jing = jing-trang; # Added 2025-09-18
   joplin = joplin-cli; # Added 2025-11-03
   jscoverage = throw "jscoverage has been removed, as it was broken"; # Added 2025-08-25
+  jsduck = throw "jsduck has been removed, as it was broken and and unmaintained upstream."; # Added 2025-12-02
   julia_19 = throw "Julia 1.9 has reached its end of life and 'julia_19' has been removed. Please use a supported version."; # Added 2025-10-29
   julia_19-bin = throw "Julia 1.9 has reached its end of life and 'julia_19-bin' has been removed. Please use a supported version."; # Added 2025-10-29
   k2pdfopt = throw "'k2pdfopt' has been removed from nixpkgs as it was broken"; # Added 2025-09-27