diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cov-core/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cov-core/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a4610fc447c..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cov-core/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, coverage }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "cov-core";
-  version = "1.15.0";
-  format = "setuptools";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "0k3np9ymh06yv1ib96sb6wfsxjkqhmik8qfsn119vnhga9ywc52a";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ coverage ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Plugin core for use by pytest-cov, nose-cov and nose2-cov";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 9e82a642cdff..693c4512c0eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ mapAliases ({
   CommonMark = commonmark; # added 2023-02-1
   ConfigArgParse = configargparse; # added 2021-03-18
   coronavirus = throw "coronavirus was removed, because the source is not providing the data anymore."; # added 2023-05-04
-  covCore = cov-core; # added 2024-01-03
+  covCore = throw "covCore was renamed to cov-core and subsequently removed since it has ben unmaintained since 2014"; # added 2024-05-20
+  cov-core = throw "cov-core has been removed, it was archived and unmaintained since 2014"; # added 2024-05-21
   cozy = throw "cozy was removed because it was not actually https://pypi.org/project/Cozy/."; # added 2022-01-14
   cryptacular = throw "cryptacular was removed, because it was disabled on all python version since 3.6 and last updated in 2021"; # Added 2024-05-13
   cryptography_vectors = "cryptography_vectors is no longer exposed in python*Packages because it is used for testing cryptography only."; # Added 2022-03-23
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 967317d22bbd..12e32abc82f8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2494,8 +2494,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   courlan = callPackage ../development/python-modules/courlan { };
 
-  cov-core = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cov-core { };
-
   coverage = callPackage ../development/python-modules/coverage { };
 
   coveralls = callPackage ../development/python-modules/coveralls { };