diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xapian/1_2.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xapian/1_2.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 47f372064453..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/xapian/1_2.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, zlib }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "xapian-1.2.4";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.4/xapian-core-1.2.4.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "0665c02aa1a6cccc071d4f2b426ac0feb6f4f8f0e50da720ce375ae6d3d6f348";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [zlib];
-
-  meta = { 
-    description = "Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval library";
-    homepage = "http://xapian.org";
-    license = "GPLv2";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ac5fe88f917f..5e110a177539 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4309,8 +4309,6 @@ let
 
   xapian = callPackage ../development/libraries/xapian { };
 
-  xapian12 = callPackage ../development/libraries/xapian/1_2.nix { };
-
   xapianBindings = callPackage ../development/libraries/xapian/bindings {  # TODO perl php Java, tcl, C#, python
   };
 
@@ -6584,9 +6582,6 @@ let
   netsurf = recurseIntoAttrs (import ../applications/networking/browsers/netsurf { inherit pkgs; });
 
   notmuch = callPackage ../applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch { };
-  notmuchXapian12 = callPackage ../applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch {
-    xapian = xapian12;
-  };
 
   nova = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/nova { };