diff --git a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/more-itertools/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python2-modules/more-itertools/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 783f57e1cfa9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/more-itertools/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchPypi,
-  unittestCheckHook,
-  six,
-  stdenv,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "more-itertools";
-  version = "5.0.0";
-  format = "setuptools";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "38a936c0a6d98a38bcc2d03fdaaedaba9f412879461dd2ceff8d37564d6522e4";
-  };
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ unittestCheckHook ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ six ];
-
-  # iterable = range(10 ** 10)  # Is efficiently reversible
-  # OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long
-  doCheck = !stdenv.hostPlatform.is32bit;
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://more-itertools.readthedocs.org";
-    description = "Expansion of the itertools module";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
index 61a20515662a..1462ea7f7c16 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ with super;
 
   mock = disabled super.mock;
 
-  more-itertools = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/more-itertools { };
+  more-itertools = disabled super.more-itertools;
 
   # ninja python stub was created to help simplify python builds using PyPA's
   # build tool in Python 3, but it does not yet support Python 2