diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/te/tecla/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/te/tecla/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..03631469889b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/te/tecla/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "tecla";
+  version = "1.6.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/tecla/libtecla-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.gz";
+    hash = "sha256-8nV8xVBAhZ/Pj1mgt7JuAYSiK+zkTtlWikU0pHjB7ho=";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [ "out" "man" ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace install-sh \
+      --replace "stripprog=" "stripprog=\$STRIP # "
+  '';
+
+  env = lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.cc.isClang {
+    NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/tecla/";
+    description = "Command-line editing library";
+    longDescription = ''
+       The tecla library provides UNIX and LINUX programs with interactive
+       command line editing facilities, similar to those of the UNIX tcsh
+       shell. In addition to simple command-line editing, it supports recall of
+       previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file names or other
+       tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of filenames. The internal
+       functions which perform file-name completion and wild-card expansion are
+       also available externally for optional use by programs.
+
+       In addition, the library includes a path-searching module. This allows an
+       application to provide completion and lookup of files located in UNIX
+       style paths. Although not built into the line editor by default, it can
+       easily be called from custom tab-completion callback functions. This was
+       originally conceived for completing the names of executables and
+       providing a way to look up their locations in the user's PATH environment
+       variable, but it can easily be asked to look up and complete other types
+       of files in any list of directories.
+
+       Note that special care has been taken to allow the use of this library in
+       threaded programs. The option to enable this is discussed in the
+       Makefile, and specific discussions of thread safety are presented in the
+       included man pages.
+    '';
+    changelog = "https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/tecla/release.html";
+    license = with lib.licenses; [ mit ];
+    mainProgram = "enhance";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ AndersonTorres ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tecla/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tecla/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c6ec8e01691..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tecla/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "tecla";
-  version = "1.6.3";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/tecla/libtecla-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "06pfq5wa8d25i9bdjkp4xhms5101dsrbg82riz7rz1a0a32pqxgj";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace install-sh \
-      --replace "stripprog=" "stripprog=\$STRIP # "
-  '';
-
-  env = lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.cc.isClang {
-    NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration";
-  };
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Command-line editing library";
-    homepage = "https://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/tecla/";
-    license = "as-is";
-    mainProgram = "enhance";
-    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 27c4a5042239..4a76ca2721f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -25210,8 +25210,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   tdlib = callPackage ../development/libraries/tdlib { };
 
-  tecla = callPackage ../development/libraries/tecla { };
-
   tectonic = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/tectonic/wrapper.nix { };
 
   tectonic-unwrapped = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/tectonic {