diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index fbe1154ab18d..5897948a9f83 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ loadkit,,,,,,alerque
 lpeg,,,,,,vyp
 lpeg_patterns,,,,,,
 lpeglabel,,,,1.6.0,,
-lpty,,,,,,
 lrexlib-gnu,,,,,,
 lrexlib-pcre,,,,,,vyp
 lrexlib-posix,,,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
index 51d44e7f1e0f..2fda54bef530 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # similar to interpreters/python/default.nix
-{ stdenv, lib, callPackage, fetchFromGitHub, fetchurl, fetchpatch, makeBinaryWrapper }:
+{ stdenv, config, lib, callPackage, fetchFromGitHub, fetchurl, fetchpatch, makeBinaryWrapper }:
 
 
 let
@@ -39,7 +39,13 @@ let
             selfHostHost = luaOnHostForHost.pkgs;
             selfTargetTarget = luaOnTargetForTarget.pkgs or {};
           };
+
+          aliases = final: prev:
+            lib.optionalAttrs config.allowAliases
+              (import ../../lua-modules/aliases.nix lib final prev);
+
           extensions = lib.composeManyExtensions [
+            aliases
             generatedPackages
             overriddenPackages
             overrides
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/aliases.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/aliases.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47a097fd7f79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/aliases.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+
+lib: self: super:
+
+### Deprecated aliases - for backward compatibility
+###
+### !!! NOTE !!!
+### Use `./remove-attr.py [attrname]` in this directory to remove your alias
+### from the `luaPackages` set without regenerating the entire file.
+
+with self;
+
+let
+  # Removing recurseForDerivation prevents derivations of aliased attribute
+  # set to appear while listing all the packages available.
+  removeRecurseForDerivations = alias: with lib;
+    if alias.recurseForDerivations or false
+    then removeAttrs alias ["recurseForDerivations"]
+    else alias;
+
+  # Disabling distribution prevents top-level aliases for non-recursed package
+  # sets from building on Hydra.
+  removeDistribute = alias: with lib;
+    if isDerivation alias then
+      dontDistribute alias
+    else alias;
+
+  # Make sure that we are not shadowing something from node-packages.nix.
+  checkInPkgs = n: alias:
+    if builtins.hasAttr n super
+    then throw "Alias ${n} is still in generated.nix"
+    else alias;
+
+  mapAliases = aliases:
+    lib.mapAttrs (n: alias:
+      removeDistribute
+        (removeRecurseForDerivations
+          (checkInPkgs n alias)))
+      aliases;
+in
+
+mapAliases {
+  "lpty" = throw "lpy was removed because broken and unmaintained "; # added 2023-10-14
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 7deb513b2312..636c411acca4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -942,29 +942,6 @@ buildLuarocksPackage {
   };
 }) {};
 
-lpty = callPackage({ luaOlder, lua, fetchurl, buildLuarocksPackage }:
-buildLuarocksPackage {
-  pname = "lpty";
-  version = "1.2.2-1";
-  knownRockspec = (fetchurl {
-    url    = "mirror://luarocks/lpty-1.2.2-1.rockspec";
-    sha256 = "04af4mhiqrw3br4qzz7yznw9zy2m50wddwzgvzkvhd99ng71fkzg";
-  }).outPath;
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url    = "http://www.tset.de/downloads/lpty-1.2.2-1.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "071mvz79wi9vr6hvrnb1rv19lqp1bh2fi742zkpv2sm1r9gy5rav";
-  };
-
-  disabled = (luaOlder "5.1");
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "http://www.tset.de/lpty/";
-    description = "A simple facility for lua to control other programs via PTYs.";
-    license.fullName = "MIT";
-  };
-}) {};
-
 lrexlib-gnu = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, luaOlder, lua, fetchgit }:
 buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "lrexlib-gnu";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/lib.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/lib.nix
index 7c7ffcccf263..a07b23ff9cd2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/lib.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/lib.nix
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ rec {
   };
   */
   generateLuarocksConfig = {
-      externalDeps
+    externalDeps ? []
     # a list of lua derivations
-    , requiredLuaRocks
+    , requiredLuaRocks ? []
     , extraVariables ? {}
-    , rocksSubdir
+    , rocksSubdir ? "rocks-subdir"
     }: let
       rocksTrees = lib.imap0
         (i: dep: {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index f8c77011c2c3..62d4e066e50b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -146,10 +146,6 @@ with prev;
     */
   });
 
-  lpty = prev.lpty.overrideAttrs (oa: {
-    meta.broken = luaOlder "5.1" || luaAtLeast "5.3";
-  });
-
   ldbus = prev.ldbus.overrideAttrs (oa: {
     extraVariables = {
       DBUS_DIR = "${dbus.lib}";