diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d34e5e3fd7c0..95041195aaa1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1305,6 +1305,8 @@ mapAliases ({
   percona-server = percona-server56; # Added 2022-11-01
   percona-server56 = throw "'percona-server56' has been dropped due to lack of maintenance, no upstream support and security issues"; # Added 2022-11-01
   percona-xtrabackup_2_4 = throw "'percona-xtrabackup_2_4' has been renamed to/replaced by 'percona-xtrabackup'"; # Added 2022-12-23
+  perldevel = throw "'perldevel' has been dropped due to lack of updates in nixpkgs and lack of consistent support for devel versions by 'perl-cross' releases, use 'perl' instead";
+  perldevelPackages = perldevel;
   perlXMLParser = throw "'perlXMLParser' has been renamed to/replaced by 'perlPackages.XMLParser'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   perlArchiveCpio = throw "'perlArchiveCpio' has been renamed to/replaced by 'perlPackages.ArchiveCpio'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   pgadmin = pgadmin4;