diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pc/pcre/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pc/pcre/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a341256205ebd..0000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/pc/pcre/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-  fetchpatch,
-  updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook,
-  pcre,
-  windows ? null,
-  # Disable jit on Apple Silicon, https://github.com/zherczeg/sljit/issues/51
-  enableJit ? !(stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64),
-  variant ? null,
-}:
-
-assert lib.elem variant [
-  null
-  "cpp"
-  "pcre32"
-];
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname =
-    "pcre"
-    + lib.optionalString (variant == "cpp") "-cpp"
-    + lib.optionalString (variant != "cpp" && variant != null) variant;
-  version = "8.45";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/project/pcre/pcre/${version}/pcre-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "sha256-Ta5v3NK7C7bDe1+Xwzwr6VTadDmFNpzdrDVG4yGL/7g=";
-  };
-
-  outputs = [
-    "bin"
-    "dev"
-    "out"
-    "doc"
-    "man"
-  ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = lib.optional enableJit "shadowstack";
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--enable-unicode-properties"
-    "--disable-cpp"
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optional enableJit "--enable-jit=auto"
-  ++ lib.optional (variant != null) "--enable-${variant}";
-
-  patches = [
-    # https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2173
-    ./stacksize-detection.patch
-
-    # Fix segfaults & tests on powerpc64
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "sljit-ppc-icache-flush.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/raw/d286e231ee680875ad8e80f90ea62e46f5edd812/srcpkgs/pcre/patches/ppc-icache-flush.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-pttmKwihLzKrAV6O4qVLp2pu4NwNJEFS/9Id8/b3nAU=";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  # necessary to build on FreeBSD native pending inclusion of
-  # https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/commit/?id=e4786449e1c26716e3f9ea182caf472e4dbc96e0
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook ];
-
-  preCheck = ''
-    patchShebangs RunGrepTest
-  '';
-
-  doCheck =
-    !(with stdenv.hostPlatform; isCygwin || isFreeBSD) && stdenv.hostPlatform == stdenv.buildPlatform;
-  # XXX: test failure on Cygwin
-  # we are running out of stack on both freeBSDs on Hydra
-
-  postFixup = ''
-    moveToOutput bin/pcre-config "$dev"
-  ''
-  + lib.optionalString (variant != null) ''
-    ln -sf -t "$out/lib/" '${pcre.out}'/lib/libpcre{,posix}.{so.*.*.*,*dylib,*a}
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://www.pcre.org/";
-    description = "Library for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions";
-    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-
-    longDescription = ''
-      The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular
-      expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as
-      Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API, as well as a set of wrapper
-      functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The
-      PCRE library is free, even for building proprietary software.
-    '';
-
-    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    pkgConfigModules = [
-      "libpcre"
-      "libpcreposix"
-    ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pc/pcre/stacksize-detection.patch b/pkgs/by-name/pc/pcre/stacksize-detection.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bc97069b1e2c..0000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/pc/pcre/stacksize-detection.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/pcre_exec.c b/pcre_exec.c
---- a/pcre_exec.c
-+++ b/pcre_exec.c
-@@ -509,6 +509,12 @@
-                  (e.g. stopped by repeated call or recursion limit)
- */
- 
-+#ifdef __GNUC__
-+static int
-+match(REGISTER PCRE_PUCHAR eptr, REGISTER const pcre_uchar *ecode,
-+  PCRE_PUCHAR mstart, int offset_top, match_data *md, eptrblock *eptrb,
-+  unsigned int rdepth) __attribute__((noinline,noclone));
-+#endif
- static int
- match(REGISTER PCRE_PUCHAR eptr, REGISTER const pcre_uchar *ecode,
-   PCRE_PUCHAR mstart, int offset_top, match_data *md, eptrblock *eptrb,
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 7a6a123c7cc76..09006453f6a1c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -2088,6 +2088,7 @@ mapAliases {
   pcmciaUtils = warnAlias "'pcmciaUtils' has been renamed to 'pcmciautils'" pcmciautils; # Added 2026-02-12
   pcp = throw "'pcp' has been removed because the upstream repo was archived and it hasn't been updated since 2021"; # Added 2025-09-23
   pcre16 = throw "'pcre16' has been removed because it is obsolete. Consider migrating to 'pcre2' instead."; # Added 2025-05-29
+  pcre = throw "'pcre' has been removed because it is end of life and was not updated upstream since 2015"; # Added 2026-10-25
   pcre-cpp = throw "'pcre-cpp' has been removed because it is obsolete. Consider migrating to 'pcre2' instead."; # Added 2026-10-20
   pcsctools = throw "'pcsctools' has been renamed to/replaced by 'pcsc-tools'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   pcsx2-bin = throw "pcsx2-bin has been removed as it only supported x86_64-darwin"; # Added 2026-06-26