diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/nr/nrpl/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/nr/nrpl/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c623f3a9da47..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/nr/nrpl/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildNimPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  fetchpatch,
-  makeWrapper,
-  nim,
-  pcre,
-  tinycc,
-}:
-
-buildNimPackage {
-  pname = "nrpl";
-  version = "20150522";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "wheineman";
-    repo = "nrpl";
-    rev = "6d6c189ab7d1c905cc29dc678d66e9e132026f69";
-    hash = "sha256-YpP1LJKX3cTPficoBUBGnUETwQX5rDCyIMxylSFNnrI=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-  buildInputs = [ pcre ];
-
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/wheineman/nrpl/pull/12.patch";
-      name = "update_for_new_nim.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-4fFj1RAxvQC9ysRBFlbEfMRPCzi+Rcu6lYEOC208zv0=";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  env.NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lpcre";
-
-  postFixup = ''
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/nrpl \
-      --prefix PATH : ${
-        lib.makeBinPath [
-          nim
-          tinycc
-        ]
-      }
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "REPL for the Nim programming language";
-    mainProgram = "nrpl";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/wheineman/nrpl";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
-    platforms = with lib.platforms; linux ++ darwin;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 560f3407cd17..f1f6a4e1db58 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1658,6 +1658,7 @@ mapAliases {
   notify-sharp = throw "'notify-sharp' has been removed as it was unmaintained and depends on deprecated dbus-sharp versions"; # Added 2025-08-25
   noto-fonts-emoji = throw "'noto-fonts-emoji' has been renamed to/replaced by 'noto-fonts-color-emoji'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   noto-fonts-extra = throw "'noto-fonts-extra' has been renamed to/replaced by 'noto-fonts'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
+  nrpl = throw "'nrpl' has been removed as it depends on pcre, which is deprecated"; # Added 2026-06-25
   NSPlist = throw "'NSPlist' has been renamed to/replaced by 'nsplist'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   nuget-to-nix = throw "nuget-to-nix has been removed as it was deprecated in favor of nuget-to-json. Please use nuget-to-json instead"; # Added 2025-08-28
   nushellFull = throw "'nushellFull' has been renamed to/replaced by 'nushell'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27