diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/vale/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/vale/default.nix
index dc2e330e0134..ba7d1a336a02 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/vale/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/vale/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 buildGoPackage rec {
   name = "vale-${version}";
-  version = "1.2.6";
+  version = "1.3.0";
 
   goPackagePath = "github.com/errata-ai/vale";
 
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ buildGoPackage rec {
     owner  = "errata-ai";
     repo   = "vale";
     rev    = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1mhynasikncwz9dkk9z27qvwk03j7q0vx0wjnqg69pd97lgrp7zp";
+    sha256 = "1yfrn27z3ifdlvalgrnhdrkhxkh09xpyv681sr01wc2hxq6v3hqn";
   };
 
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+  doCheck = true;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://errata-ai.github.io/vale/;
-    description = "Vale is an open source linter for prose";
+    description = "A syntax-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind";
     license = licenses.mit;
     maintainers = [ maintainers.marsam ];
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/vale/deps.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/vale/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c19af2cd4f0f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/vale/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,246 +0,0 @@
-# file generated from Gopkg.lock using dep2nix (https://github.com/nixcloud/dep2nix)
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/ValeLint/gospell";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/ValeLint/gospell";
-      rev =  "90dfc71015dfebd3a7274f1ad2756c1dbf09e250";
-      sha256 = "0i2ha76q2xja8r4j72kqiarnylrbk4l1b29632skgzib6k4fh4g1";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/client9/gospell";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/client9/gospell";
-      rev =  "90dfc71015dfebd3a7274f1ad2756c1dbf09e250";
-      sha256 = "0i2ha76q2xja8r4j72kqiarnylrbk4l1b29632skgzib6k4fh4g1";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/davecgh/go-spew";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/davecgh/go-spew";
-      rev =  "346938d642f2ec3594ed81d874461961cd0faa76";
-      sha256 = "0d4jfmak5p6lb7n2r6yvf5p1zcw0l8j74kn55ghvr7zr7b7axm6c";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/fatih/color";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/fatih/color";
-      rev =  "570b54cabe6b8eb0bc2dfce68d964677d63b5260";
-      sha256 = "1hw9hgkfzbzqjhy29pqpk20xggxaqjv45wx8yn69488mw5ph7khh";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/gobwas/glob";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/gobwas/glob";
-      rev =  "bea32b9cd2d6f55753d94a28e959b13f0244797a";
-      sha256 = "0dx0f293v1a0d8qi7ik5hdl26dapd8xm0hj9a9gc620vhj7khi9q";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/jdkato/prose";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/jdkato/prose";
-      rev =  "4d68d1b77f66e36b6897a79f59f434d558e5e0c2";
-      sha256 = "1g2wwj6azpcjy6j7pk4dqx868v3hrqwjg5d737p4441a55026prj";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/jdkato/regexp";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/jdkato/regexp";
-      rev =  "38ab2f7842bf2a539528aa7d0014b37421b886e1";
-      sha256 = "11z21z2h2l8vlh4nwkcn7vbfdcmdjk9sc90kn8ji1923i3s7p3bw";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/mattn/go-colorable";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mattn/go-colorable";
-      rev =  "941b50ebc6efddf4c41c8e4537a5f68a4e686b24";
-      sha256 = "0dw492z5w0fzv1cxm3xx26n8qpqjaf2ybiwpmvimzyhv65n8nrf8";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/mattn/go-isatty";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mattn/go-isatty";
-      rev =  "fc9e8d8ef48496124e79ae0df75490096eccf6fe";
-      sha256 = "1r5f9gkavkb1w6sr0qs5kj16706xirl3qnlq3hqpszkw9w27x65a";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/mattn/go-runewidth";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mattn/go-runewidth";
-      rev =  "9e777a8366cce605130a531d2cd6363d07ad7317";
-      sha256 = "0vkrfrz3fzn5n6ix4k8s0cg0b448459sldq8bp4riavsxm932jzb";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir";
-      rev =  "b8bc1bf767474819792c23f32d8286a45736f1c6";
-      sha256 = "13ry4lylalkh4g2vny9cxwvryslzyzwp9r92z0b10idhdq3wad1q";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure";
-      rev =  "d0303fe809921458f417bcf828397a65db30a7e4";
-      sha256 = "1fjwi5ghc1ibyx93apz31n4hj6gcq1hzismpdfbg2qxwshyg0ya8";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/montanaflynn/stats";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/montanaflynn/stats";
-      rev =  "eeaced052adbcfeea372c749c281099ed7fdaa38";
-      sha256 = "0kamcla633692n81w0j0d423ws3qdds97r2c0i193ypsh9xknpq9";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter";
-      rev =  "be5337e7b39e64e5f91445ce7e721888dbab7387";
-      sha256 = "04zg261i4bq29bc460nyx9r2j70mj0sbxlprn87ylk8y5j2m1d1w";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/pmezard/go-difflib";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/pmezard/go-difflib";
-      rev =  "792786c7400a136282c1664665ae0a8db921c6c2";
-      sha256 = "0c1cn55m4rypmscgf0rrb88pn58j3ysvc2d0432dp3c6fqg6cnzw";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/remeh/sizedwaitgroup";
-    fetch = {
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-      url = "https://github.com/remeh/sizedwaitgroup";
-      rev =  "4b44541c93591ee0e73747d6081e61bd8c58b5c7";
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-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/russross/blackfriday";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/russross/blackfriday";
-      rev =  "0b647d0506a698cca42caca173e55559b12a69f2";
-      sha256 = "1bv6mvnrqrcrp5d45l5p07q855sval8l3jzw1cf2dajkpcpysqln";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/shogo82148/go-shuffle";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/shogo82148/go-shuffle";
-      rev =  "4789c7c401f229b3ae1673acbccca451480660cd";
-      sha256 = "1gaii1h51df8vr28ww5np8nhvfcy4plv0nja9b9h0cmcxa3jf1lp";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name";
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-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/stretchr/testify";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/stretchr/testify";
-      rev =  "69483b4bd14f5845b5a1e55bca19e954e827f1d0";
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-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/urfave/cli";
-    fetch = {
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-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "github.com/xrash/smetrics";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
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-      rev =  "a3153f7040e90324c58c6287535e26a0ac5c1cc1";
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-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "golang.org/x/net";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/net";
-      rev =  "ab5485076ff3407ad2d02db054635913f017b0ed";
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-    goPackagePath  = "golang.org/x/sys";
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-      rev =  "14ac33bf8474b62c65cae263af2e4d3b543cc699";
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-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath  = "gopkg.in/ini.v1";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/go-ini/ini";
-      rev =  "d3de07a94d22b4a0972deb4b96d790c2c0ce8333";
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-    goPackagePath  = "gopkg.in/neurosnap/sentences.v1";
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-    goPackagePath  = "gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
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