pal: drop

The software build has failed. It has no maintainer, the upstream project has not been updated for years, and it is difficult to maintain. It should be removed.

pkgs/by-name/pa/pal/package.nix

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-  glib,
-  gettext,
-  readline,
-  pkg-config,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "pal";
-  version = "0.4.3";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/palcal/pal-${version}.tgz";
-    sha256 = "072mahxvd7lcvrayl32y589w4v3vh7bmlcnhiksjylknpsvhqiyf";
-  };
-
-  patchPhase = ''
-    sed -i -e 's/-o root//' -e 's,ESTDIR}/etc,ESTDIR}'$out/etc, src/Makefile
-    sed -i -e 's,/etc/pal\.conf,'$out/etc/pal.conf, src/input.c
-  '';
-
-  makeFlags = [ "prefix=$(out)" ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [
-    glib
-    gettext
-    readline
-  ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://palcal.sourceforge.net/";
-    description = "Command-line calendar program that can keep track of events";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    platforms = with lib.platforms; linux;
-  };
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -1798,6 +1798,7 @@ mapAliases {
   packet-cli = throw "'packet-cli' has been renamed to/replaced by 'metal-cli'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   paco = throw "'paco' has been removed as it has been abandoned"; # Added 2025-04-30
   inherit (perlPackages) pacup;
+  pal = throw "pal has been removed, as it was broken"; # Added 2025-08-25
   panopticon = throw "'panopticon' has been removed because it is unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2025-01-25
   paperoni = throw "paperoni has been removed, because it is unmaintained"; # Added 2024-07-14
   paperless = throw "'paperless' has been renamed to/replaced by 'paperless-ngx'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17