diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rednose/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rednose/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index fdfcbff877fe..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rednose/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy27, pythonAtLeast
-, nose, six, colorama, termstyle }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "rednose";
-  version = "1.3.0";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "6da77917788be277b70259edc0bb92fc6f28fe268b765b4ea88206cc3543a3e1";
-  };
-
-  prePatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.py --replace "six==1.10.0" "six>=1.10.0"
-  '';
-
-  # Do not test on Python 2 because the tests suite gets stuck
-  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/60786
-  # Also macOS tests are broken on python38
-  doCheck = !(isPy27 || (stdenv.isDarwin && pythonAtLeast "3.8"));
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ six ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ nose colorama termstyle ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A python nose plugin adding color to console results";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/JBKahn/rednose";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 467d1c1a4df4..bfbbc414db11 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   qiskit-aqua = throw "qiskit-aqua has been removed due to deprecation, with its functionality moved to different qiskit packages";
   rabbitpy = throw "rabbitpy has been removed, since it is unmaintained and broken"; # added 2023-07-01
   rdflib-jsonld = throw "rdflib-jsonld is not compatible with rdflib 6"; # added 2021-11-05
+  rednose = throw "rednose is no longer maintained (since February 2018)"; # added 2023-08-06
   retworkx = rustworkx; # added 2023-05-14
   repeated_test = repeated-test; # added 2022-11-15
   requests_oauthlib = requests-oauthlib; # added 2022-02-12
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 72c64cc4e9e7..9081e8beb984 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10878,8 +10878,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   redis = callPackage ../development/python-modules/redis { };
 
-  rednose = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rednose { };
-
   redshift-connector = callPackage ../development/python-modules/redshift-connector { };
 
   reedsolo = callPackage ../development/python-modules/reedsolo { };