diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
index aa922c19860..171b49ee568 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ nixpkgs$ ${0} ${GENERATED_NIXFILE}
 
 These packages are manually refined in lua-overrides.nix
 */
-{ self, lua, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
+{ self, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
 self: super:
 with self;
 {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 7da4a9eeddf..8a9618e1f1e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ nixpkgs$ maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages pkgs/development/lua-modul
 
 These packages are manually refined in lua-overrides.nix
 */
-{ self, lua, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
+{ self, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
 self: super:
 with self;
 {