diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/vcver/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/vcver/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d1f5d20566f4..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/vcver/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  packaging,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage {
-  pname = "vcver";
-  version = "0.2.12";
-  format = "setuptools";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "toumorokoshi";
-    repo = "vcver-python";
-    rev = "c5d8a6f1f0e49bb25f5dbb07312e42cb4da096d6";
-    sha256 = "1cvgs70jf7ki78338zaglaw2dkvyndmx15ybd6k4zqwwsfgk490b";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ packaging ];
-
-  # circular dependency on test tool uranium https://pypi.org/project/uranium/
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "vcver" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Reference Implementation of vcver";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/toumorokoshi/vcver-python";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ hexa ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index b5830cf6fe21..cb4854915657 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -836,6 +836,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   uuid = throw "uuid is a Python standard module"; # added 2024-04-18
   validictory = throw "validictory has been removed, since it abandoned"; # added 2023-07-07
   validphys2 = throw "validphys2 has been removed, since it had a broken dependency that was removed"; # added 2023-07-07
+  vcver = throw "vcver has been removed, since it was an unused leaf package"; # added 2025-08-25
   vega_datasets = vega-datasets; # added 2023-11-04
   ViennaRNA = viennarna; # added 2023-08-23
   virtual-display = throw "virtual-display has been renamed to PyVirtualDisplay"; # added 2023-01-07
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e3429aee40ea..2e8e93b25913 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -19465,8 +19465,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   vcrpy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vcrpy { };
 
-  vcver = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vcver { };
-
   vcversioner = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vcversioner { };
 
   vdf = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vdf { };