diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/leksah/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/leksah/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index ec2fb334a3b3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/leksah/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, ghcWithPackages, gtk3, makeWrapper }:
-
-let
-leksahEnv = ghcWithPackages (self: [ self.leksah-server self.leksah self.cabal-install ]);
-in stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "leksah-${leksahEnv.version}";
-
-  buildInputs = [ gtk3 ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-
-  buildCommand = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    makeWrapper ${leksahEnv}/bin/leksah $out/bin/leksah \
-      --prefix PATH : "${leksahEnv}/bin" \
-      --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "$GSETTINGS_SCHEMAS_PATH"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    broken = true; # 2018-09-13, no successful hydra build since 2017-08-19
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 81eab30b55d0..ca5b8dd0fe57 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12726,9 +12726,8 @@ in
 
   lambda-mod-zsh-theme = callPackage ../shells/zsh/lambda-mod-zsh-theme { };
 
-  leksah = callPackage ../development/tools/haskell/leksah {
-    inherit (haskellPackages) ghcWithPackages;
-  };
+  leksah = throw ("To use leksah, refer to the instructions in " +
+    "https://github.com/leksah/leksah.");
 
   libgme = callPackage ../development/libraries/audio/libgme { };