diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/codesearch/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/codesearch/default.nix
index 7f706cf1376..37336e63efe 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/codesearch/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/codesearch/default.nix
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ buildGoPackage rec {
     sha256 = "12bv3yz0l3bmsxbasfgv7scm9j719ch6pmlspv4bd4ix7wjpyhny";
   };
 
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
-
   meta = {
     description = "Fast, indexed regexp search over large file trees";
     homepage = "https://github.com/google/codesearch";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/codesearch/deps.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/codesearch/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d1dad70634..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/codesearch/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated by go2nix.
-[
-]