diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/gnome15/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/gnome15/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 41d535b3510..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/gnome15/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, python2, gnome_python, gnome_python_desktop }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnome15-2016-06-10";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "achilleas-k";
-    repo = "gnome15";
-    rev = "1077c890d9ba8ef7a5e448e70a792de5c7443c84";
-    sha256 = "0z5k2rgvv5zyi3lbbk6svncypidj44qzfchivb4vlr7clmh16m95";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig python2.pkgs.wrapPython ];
-  buildInputs = [ python2 ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python2.pkgs; [
-    pygtk keyring virtkey pillow dbus-python pyinotify lxml pyxdg pyusb gnome_python gnome_python_desktop
-    python-uinput xlib pyudev pyinputevent
-  ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    touch README
-    export UDEV_RULES_PATH="$out/lib/udev/rules.d"
-  '';
-
-  postFixup = ''
-    wrapPythonPrograms
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "A set of tools for configuring the Logitech G15 keyboard";
-    # Doesn't work with new `keyring` library which is Python 3-only now.
-    # https://github.com/Gnome15/gnome15/issues/29
-    broken = true;
-    license = licenses.gpl3;
-    homepage = https://gnome15.org/;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index a2068fb9576..320091f1351 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   git-hub = gitAndTools.git-hub; # added 2016-04-29
   glib_networking = glib-networking; # added 2018-02-25
   gnome-mpv = celluloid; # added 2019-08-22
+  gnome15 = throw "gnome15 has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's unmaintained and depends on deprecated libraries."; # added 2019-12-10
   gmic_krita_qt = gmic-qt-krita; # added 2019-09-07
   gnome-themes-standard = gnome-themes-extra; # added 2018-03-14
   gnome_doc_utils = gnome-doc-utils; # added 2018-02-25
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ce9223fafa0..c27a67c91fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3550,10 +3550,6 @@ in
 
   gnirehtet = callPackage ../tools/networking/gnirehtet { };
 
-  gnome15 = callPackage ../applications/misc/gnome15 {
-    inherit (gnome2) gnome_python gnome_python_desktop;
-  };
-
   gnome-builder = callPackage ../applications/editors/gnome-builder { };
 
   gnome-keysign = callPackage ../tools/security/gnome-keysign { };