diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/weechat/devel.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/weechat/devel.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a2f32e2b3d3..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/weechat/devel.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, ncurses, openssl, perl, python, aspell, gnutls
-, zlib, curl , pkgconfig, libgcrypt, ruby, lua5, tcl, guile
-, pythonPackages, cacert, cmake, makeWrapper }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  rev = "124b2668fe4e97e3926caea85ed2c9f7082c4df9";
-  version = "1.0-rev${rev}";
-  name = "weechat-${version}";
-
-  src = fetchgit {
-    inherit rev;
-    url = "git://github.com/weechat/weechat.git";
-    sha256 = "1xl5scyrxmyqaycpalhl3j50s65w2gjdm43vahd618yyykdffr8b";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = 
-    [ ncurses perl python openssl aspell gnutls zlib curl pkgconfig
-      libgcrypt ruby lua5 tcl guile pythonPackages.pycrypto makeWrapper
-      cacert cmake ]
-    ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin pythonPackages.pync;
-
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-I${python}/include/${python.libPrefix}";
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    NIX_PYTHON_PATH="$out/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages"
-  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
-    NIX_PYTHON_PATH+="${pythonPackages.pync}/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages"
-  '' + ''
-     wrapProgram "$out/bin/weechat" \
-       --prefix PYTHONPATH : "$PYTHONPATH" \
-       --prefix PYTHONPATH : "$NIX_PYTHONPATH"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage    = http://www.weechat.org/;
-    description = "A fast, light and extensible chat client";
-    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ lovek323 garbas the-kenny ];
-    platforms   = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-    broken      = true; # we have a newer stable that builds
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 626e2b55def..0a9c1e75473 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11121,8 +11121,6 @@ let
 
   weechat = callPackage ../applications/networking/irc/weechat { };
 
-  weechatDevel = lowPrio (callPackage ../applications/networking/irc/weechat/devel.nix { });
-
   westonLite = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/weston {
     pango = null;
     freerdp = null;