diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compat/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compat/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d33a4be2817f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compat/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, python,
-  django, six
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "django-compat";
-  version = "1.0.15";
-
-  # the pypi packages don't include everything required for the tests
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "arteria";
-    repo = "django-compat";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1pr6v38ahrsvxlgmcx69s4b5q5082f44gzi4h3c32sccdc4pwqxp";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    ./fix-tests.diff
-  ];
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    runHook preCheck
-
-    # to convince the tests to run against the installed package, not the source directory, we extract the
-    # tests directory from it then dispose of the actual source
-    mv compat/tests .
-    rm -r compat
-    substituteInPlace runtests.py --replace compat.tests tests
-    ${python.interpreter} runtests.py
-
-    runHook postCheck
-  '';
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ django six ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Forward and backwards compatibility layer for Django 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/arteria/django-compat";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ris ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compat/fix-tests.diff b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compat/fix-tests.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 58165db96a87..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compat/fix-tests.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-diff -ur a/compat/tests/settings.py b/compat/tests/settings.py
---- a/compat/tests/settings.py	2020-03-06 15:32:07.548482597 +0100
-+++ b/compat/tests/settings.py	2020-03-06 22:19:25.422934249 +0100
-@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@
-     'django.contrib.admin',
-     'django.contrib.auth',
-     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
-+    'django.contrib.messages',
-     'compat',
-     'compat.tests.test_app',
- ]
- 
--MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
-+MIDDLEWARE = (
-     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
-     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
-     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
-@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@
-                 'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
-                 'django.template.context_processors.tz',
-                 'django.template.context_processors.request',
-+                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
-             ],
-             'loaders': [
-                 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
-diff -ur a/compat/tests/test_compat.py b/compat/tests/test_compat.py
---- a/compat/tests/test_compat.py	2020-03-06 15:32:07.548482597 +0100
-+++ b/compat/tests/test_compat.py	2020-03-06 15:37:39.202835075 +0100
-@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
- from django.core.serializers.json import DjangoJSONEncoder
- from django.test import TestCase, SimpleTestCase
- from django.test.client import RequestFactory
--from django.contrib.auth.views import logout
-+from django.contrib.auth.views import auth_logout
- try:
-     from django.urls import NoReverseMatch
- except ImportError:
-@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
-         Tests that passing a view name to ``resolve_url`` will result in the
-         URL path mapping to that view name.
-         """
--        resolved_url = resolve_url(logout)
-+        resolved_url = resolve_url(auth_logout)
-         self.assertEqual('/accounts/logout/', resolved_url)
- 
-     '''
-diff -ur a/compat/tests/urls.py b/compat/tests/urls.py
---- a/compat/tests/urls.py	2020-03-06 15:32:07.548482597 +0100
-+++ b/compat/tests/urls.py	2020-03-06 15:34:25.962377799 +0100
-@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
- from django.contrib.auth import views
- 
- urlpatterns = [
--    url(r'^accounts/logout/$', views.logout, name='logout'),
-+    url(r'^accounts/logout/$', views.auth_logout, name='logout'),
- ]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-hijack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-hijack/default.nix
index 18ef2e3ace79..ef77abefeeae 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-hijack/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-hijack/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 
 # dependencies
 , django
-, django-compat
 
 # tests
 , pytest-django
@@ -54,7 +53,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     django
-    django-compat
   ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index a6ef2838bcb6..87ea55ac064e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   django_classytags = django-classy-tags; # added 2023-07-25
   django_colorful = django-colorful; # added 2023-07-25
   django_compat = django-compat; # added 2023-07-25
+  django-compat = throw "django-compat has been removed. It provided forward/backport compat for django 1.x, which is long end of life."; # added 2023-07-26
   django_contrib_comments = django-contrib-comments; # added 2023-07-25
   django-discover-runner = throw "django-discover-runner was removed because it is no longer maintained."; # added 2022-11-21
   django_environ = django-environ; # added 2021-12-25
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index cda5a120314a..b600ade3f23c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2774,8 +2774,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   django-colorful = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-colorful { };
 
-  django-compat = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-compat { };
-
   django-compressor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-compressor { };
 
   django-compression-middleware = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-compression-middleware { };