diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypcap/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypcap/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bf0723dc6ce5..0000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypcap/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  dpkt,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  libpcap,
-  pytestCheckHook,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pypcap";
-  version = "1.3.0";
-  format = "setuptools";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "pynetwork";
-    repo = pname;
-    # No release was tagged and PyPI doesn't contain tests.
-    rev = "968859f0ffb5b7c990506dffe82457b7de23a026";
-    hash = "sha256-NfyEC3qEBm6TjebcDIsoz8tJWaJ625ZFPfx7AMyynWE=";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    # Add the path to libpcap in the nix-store
-    substituteInPlace setup.py --replace "('/usr', sys.prefix)" "'${libpcap}'"
-    # Remove coverage from test run
-    sed -i "/--cov/d" setup.cfg
-  '';
-
-  buildInputs = [ libpcap ];
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [
-    dpkt
-    pytestCheckHook
-  ];
-
-  pytestFlagsArray = [ "tests" ];
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "pcap" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/pynetwork/pypcap";
-    description = "Simplified object-oriented Python wrapper for libpcap";
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ oxzi ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 052edce0f5725..cc2466fbc39aa 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   pwndbg = throw "'pwndbg' has been removed due to dependency version incompatibilities that are infeasible to maintain in nixpkgs. Use the downstream flake that pwndbg provides instead: https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg"; # Added 2025-02-09
   pxml = throw "pxml was removed, because it was disabled on all python version since 3.8 and last updated in 2020."; # added 2024-05-13
   py3to2 = throw "py3to2 is unmaintained and source is no longer available"; # added 2024-10-23
+  pypcap = throw "pypcap has been removed because it is broken and unmaintained upstream."; # added 2025-06-18
   py-radix = throw "py-radix has been removed, since it abandoned"; # added 2023-07-07
   py_stringmatching = py-stringmatching; # added 2023-11-12
   py17track = throw "py17track was removed because Home Assistant switched to pyseventeentrack"; # added 2024-08-08
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 8741a79ad920d..ae264ecccc246 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13049,10 +13049,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   pypca = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pypca { };
 
-  pypcap = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pypcap {
-    inherit (pkgs) libpcap; # Avoid confusion with python package of the same name
-  };
-
   pypck = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pypck { };
 
   pypdf = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pypdf { };