boost184: drop

pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.84.nix

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-{ callPackage, fetchurl, ... } @ args:
-
-callPackage ./generic.nix (args // rec {
-  version = "1.84.0";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    urls = [
-      "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_${builtins.replaceStrings ["."] ["_"] version}.tar.bz2"
-      "https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/${version}/source/boost_${builtins.replaceStrings ["."] ["_"] version}.tar.bz2"
-    ];
-    # SHA256 from http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_84_0.html
-    sha256 = "cc4b893acf645c9d4b698e9a0f08ca8846aa5d6c68275c14c3e7949c24109454";
-  };
-})

pkgs/development/libraries/boost/default.nix

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ in {
   boost181 = makeBoost ./1.81.nix;
   boost182 = makeBoost ./1.82.nix;
   boost183 = makeBoost ./1.83.nix;
-  boost184 = makeBoost ./1.84.nix;
   boost185 = makeBoost ./1.85.nix;
   boost186 = makeBoost ./1.86.nix;
 }

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ mapAliases {
   blockbench-electron = blockbench; # Added 2024-03-16
   bloom = throw "'bloom' has been removed because it was unmaintained upstream."; # Added 2024-11-02
   bmap-tools = bmaptool; # Added 2024-08-05
+  boost184 = throw "Boost 1.84 has been removed as it is obsolete and no longer used by anything in Nixpkgs"; # Added 2024-11-24
   boost_process = throw "boost_process has been removed as it is included in regular boost"; # Added 2024-05-01
   bpb = throw "bpb has been removed as it is unmaintained and not compatible with recent Rust versions"; # Added 2024-04-30
   bpftool = throw "'bpftool' has been renamed to/replaced by 'bpftools'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -8851,7 +8851,6 @@ with pkgs;
     boost181
     boost182
     boost183
-    boost184
     boost185
     boost186
   ;