diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avarice/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avarice/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a8f6426a3b7..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avarice/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, gcc, perl, libusb }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-
-  name="avarice-2.13";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/avarice/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0jhh1h1k5b41v2ycq8kn43nkrkh0b9l7xjmw38rak871g3z3hix1";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ gcc perl libusb ];
-
-  meta = {
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    description = "Translator between GDB's remote debug protocol and the AVR JTAG ICE protocol";
-    homepage = https://sourceforge.net/projects/avarice/files/avarice/;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.smironov ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-    broken = true; # 2018-04-10
-  };
-}
-
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 60021797900..2563bf1166e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9725,10 +9725,6 @@ in
 
   avrdude = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/avrdude { };
 
-  avarice = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/avarice {
-    gcc = gcc49;
-  };
-
   babeltrace = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/babeltrace { };
 
   bam = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/bam {};