diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/xm/xmlroff/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/xm/xmlroff/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index bfa6a4578ffc..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/xm/xmlroff/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  autoreconfHook,
-  gtk2,
-  libxml2,
-  libxslt,
-  pango,
-  perl,
-  pkg-config,
-  popt,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "xmlroff";
-  version = "0.6.3";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "xmlroff";
-    repo = "xmlroff";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "0dgp72094lx9i9gvg21pp8ak7bg39707rdf6wz011p9s6n6lrq5g";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    autoreconfHook
-    pkg-config
-  ];
-  buildInputs = [
-    libxml2
-    libxslt
-    pango
-    gtk2
-    popt
-  ];
-
-  sourceRoot = "${src.name}/xmlroff";
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  configureScript = "./autogen.sh";
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--disable-gp"
-  ];
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    substituteInPlace tools/insert-file-as-string.pl --replace "/usr/bin/perl" "${perl}/bin/perl"
-    substituteInPlace Makefile --replace "docs" ""  # docs target wants to download from network
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "XSL Formatter";
-    homepage = "http://xmlroff.org/";
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    mainProgram = "xmlroff";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index ddb6d0ae7543..6a2fff94b9e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -2032,6 +2032,7 @@ mapAliases {
   xineUI = throw "'xineUI' has been renamed to/replaced by 'xine-ui'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   xlsxgrep = throw "'xlsxgrep' has been dropped due to lack of maintenance."; # Added 2024-11-01
   xmlada = gnatPackages.xmlada; # Added 2024-02-25
+  xmlroff = throw "'xmlroff' has been removed as it is unmaintained and broken"; # Added 2025-05-18
   xmr-stak = throw "xmr-stak has been removed from nixpkgs because it was broken"; # Added 2024-07-15
   xmake-core-sv = throw "'xmake-core-sv' has been removed, use 'libsv' instead"; # Added 2024-10-10
   xournal = throw "'xournal' has been removed due to lack of activity upstream and depending on gnome2. Consider using 'xournalpp' instead."; # Added 2024-12-06