diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydrive/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydrive/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d1fc187c9f5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pydrive/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, google-api-python-client
-, oauth2client
-, pyyaml
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pydrive";
-  version = "1.3.1";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    pname = "PyDrive";
-    inherit version;
-    sha256 = "11q7l94mb34hfh9wkdwfrh5xw99y13wa33ba7xp1q23q4b60v2c3";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    google-api-python-client
-    oauth2client
-    pyyaml
-  ];
-
-  # requires client_secrets.json
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Google Drive API Python wrapper library";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/gsuitedevs/PyDrive";
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index aad69e893e9c..2a17eb067b88 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   prometheus_client = prometheus-client; # added 2021-06-10
   prompt_toolkit = prompt-toolkit; # added 2021-07-22
   pur = throw "pur has been renamed to pkgs.pur"; # added 2021-11-08
+  pydrive = throw "pydrive is broken and deprecated and has been replaced with pydrive2."; # added 2022-06-01
   pyGtkGlade = throw "Glade support for pygtk has been removed"; # added 2022-01-15
   pycallgraph = throw "pycallgraph has been removed, it was using setuptools 2to3 translation feature, which has been removed in setuptools 58"; # added 2022-01-18
   pylibgen = throw "pylibgen is unmaintained upstreamed, and removed from nixpkgs"; # added 2020-06-20
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 4e4ab0660afb..c2dfd23222dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -7200,8 +7200,6 @@ in {
     inherit (pkgs) graphviz;
   };
 
-  pydrive = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pydrive { };
-
   pydrive2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pydrive2 { };
 
   pydroid-ipcam = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pydroid-ipcam  { };