diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cppnetlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cppnetlib/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 818e28b0a769..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cppnetlib/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, openssl, boost}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "cpp-netlib-0.9.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/downloads/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0llmiyp9l7byavwdyb7vpks27yfv3g85170bm81paps748bcyb1p";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ cmake boost openssl ];
-
-  /* Tests fail to build ...
-    https://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/issues/85
-
-    Once working, we could do:
-    checkTarget = "test";
-    doCheck = true;
-  */
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    sed -i /test/d CMakeLists.txt
-  '';
-
-  /* The build phase just builds examples. That's at least some testing.
-     That's how to install the lib - copy the headers. */
-  installPhase = ''
-    # We are at sourcepath/build
-    mkdir -p $out/include
-    cp -R ../boost $out/include/
-    mkdir -p $out/lib
-    cp -R libs/network/src/*.a $out/lib/
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://cpp-netlib.github.com/;
-    description = "Provides application layer network support at boost style";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.boost;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5fc88b3c8f21..71314d4102f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5016,8 +5016,6 @@ let
 
   cppunit = callPackage ../development/libraries/cppunit { };
 
-  cppnetlib = callPackage ../development/libraries/cppnetlib { };
-
   cracklib = callPackage ../development/libraries/cracklib { };
 
   cryptopp = callPackage ../development/libraries/crypto++ { };