diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibgen/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibgen/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9dc6689e9000..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylibgen/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub
-, pythonOlder
-, requests
-, pytest
-, pre-commit
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pylibgen";
-  version = "2.0.2";
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "joshuarli";
-    repo = pname;
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1a9vhkgnkiwkicr2s287254mrkpnw9jq5r63q820dp3h74ba4kl1";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ requests ];
-
-  checkInputs = [ pytest pre-commit ];
-
-  # literally every tests does a network call
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Python interface to Library Genesis";
-    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/pylibgen/";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.nico202 ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0ecba8ceb468..7b54ed711e2c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5484,7 +5484,7 @@ in {
 
   pylibacl = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pylibacl { };
 
-  pylibgen = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pylibgen { };
+  pylibgen = throw "pylibgen is unmaintained upstreamed, and removed from nixpkgs"; # added 2020-06-20
 
   pyliblo = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyliblo { };