diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/coredumper/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/coredumper/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index ddd0d87a551..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/coredumper/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "coredumper-1.1";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://google-coredumper.googlecode.com/files/coredumper-1.1.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1phl1zg2n17rp595dyzz9iw01gfdpsdh0l6wy2hfb5shi71h63rx";
-  };
-
-  # Doesn't build:
-  #
-  # src/elfcore.c: In function 'CreatePipeline':
-  # src/elfcore.c:1424:26: error: 'CLONE_VM' undeclared (first use in this function)
-  #                           CLONE_VM|CLONE_UNTRACED|SIGCHLD, &args, 0, 0, 0);
-  #                           ^
-  # src/elfcore.c:1424:26: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
-  meta.broken = true;
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 99d412da8c1..840d02c51fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   conntrack_tools = conntrack-tools; # added 2018-05
   cool-old-term = cool-retro-term; # added 2015-01-31
   corebird = throw "deprecated 2019-10-02: See https://www.patreon.com/posts/corebirds-future-18921328. Please use Cawbird as replacement.";
+  coredumper = throw "coredumper has been removed: Abandoned by upstream."; # added 2019-11-16
   cpp-gsl = microsoft_gsl; # added 2019-05-24
   cupsBjnp = cups-bjnp; # added 2016-01-02
   cups_filters = cups-filters; # added 2016-08
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0be07adc109..2f9927b8688 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10849,8 +10849,6 @@ in
 
   commoncpp2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/commoncpp2 { };
 
-  coredumper = callPackage ../development/libraries/coredumper { };
-
   ctl = callPackage ../development/libraries/ctl { };
 
   ctpp2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/ctpp2 { };