diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e33234304d2..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "tsocks-${version}";
-  version = "1.8beta5";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/tsocks/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0ixkymiph771dcdzvssi9dr2pk1bzaw9zv85riv3xl40mzspx7c4";
-  };
-
-  patches = [ ./poll.patch ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    sed -i -e "s,\\\/usr,"$(echo $out|sed -e "s,\\/,\\\\\\\/,g")",g" tsocks
-    substituteInPlace tsocks --replace /usr $out
-    export configureFlags="$configureFlags --libdir=$out/lib"
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Transparent SOCKS v4 proxying library";
-    homepage = http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.phreedom ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/poll.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/poll.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bfeb9f779c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/poll.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-From Ingo Hadan <ingo.hadan@sdm.de> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:08:50 +0200
-From: Julien Moutinho <julm+tsocks@autogeree.net>
-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:57:26 +0200
-Subject: tsocks fails if socksified application uses poll(2) (e.g. subversion-1.5)
-
----
-diff --git a/tsocks.c b/tsocks.c
-index 9cfdfff..470babd 100644
---- a/tsocks.c
-+++ b/tsocks.c
-@@ -657,10 +657,11 @@ int poll(POLL_SIGNATURE) {
-              * be ready for writing), otherwise we'll just let the select loop
-              * come around again (since we can't flag it for read, we don't know
-              * if there is any data to be read and can't be bothered checking) */
--            if (conn->selectevents & WRITE) {
--               setevents |= POLLOUT; 
-+            if (conn->selectevents & POLLOUT) {
-+               ufds[i].revents |= POLLOUT; 
-                nevents++;
-             }
-+            ufds[i].events = conn->selectevents;
-          }
-       }
-    } while (nevents == 0);
-
-
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 97450c4652a..70ded7bf64d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7004,8 +7004,6 @@ let
 
   unicap = callPackage ../development/libraries/unicap {};
 
-  tsocks = callPackage ../development/libraries/tsocks { };
-
   unixODBC = callPackage ../development/libraries/unixODBC { };
 
   unixODBCDrivers = recurseIntoAttrs (import ../development/libraries/unixODBCDrivers {