diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-libarchive/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-libarchive/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 02fe2347924..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-libarchive/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchurl
-, isPy3k
-, pkgs
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "3.1.2-1";
-  pname = "libarchive";
-  disabled = isPy3k;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://python-libarchive.googlecode.com/files/python-libarchive-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0j4ibc4mvq64ljya9max8832jafi04jciff9ia9qy0xhhlwkcx8x";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pkgs.libarchive.lib ];
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Multi-format archive and compression library";
-    homepage = "https://libarchive.org/";
-    license = licenses.bsd0;
-    broken = true;
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0a84f53fa3a..9553589b341 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3242,8 +3242,6 @@ in {
 
   libarchive-c = callPackage ../development/python-modules/libarchive-c { inherit (pkgs) libarchive; };
 
-  libarchive = self.python-libarchive; # The latter is the name upstream uses
-
   libarcus = callPackage ../development/python-modules/libarcus { inherit (pkgs) protobuf; };
 
   libasyncns = callPackage ../development/python-modules/libasyncns { inherit (pkgs) libasyncns pkgconfig; };
@@ -5650,8 +5648,6 @@ in {
 
   python-Levenshtein = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-levenshtein { };
 
-  python-libarchive = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-libarchive { };
-
   python-logstash = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-logstash { };
 
   python-ly = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-ly { };