diff --git a/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md b/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md
index ac518cee524c..d3e1dd5b27d8 100644
--- a/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md
+++ b/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md
@@ -192,10 +192,6 @@ meta.hydraPlatforms = [];
 
 If set to `true`, the package is marked as "broken", meaning that it won’t show up in `nix-env -qa`, and cannot be built or installed. Such packages should be removed from Nixpkgs eventually unless they are fixed.
 
-### `updateWalker` {#var-meta-updateWalker}
-
-If set to `true`, the package is tested to be updated correctly by the `update-walker.sh` script without additional settings. Such packages have `meta.version` set and their homepage (or the page specified by `meta.downloadPage`) contains a direct link to the package tarball.
-
 ## Licenses {#sec-meta-license}
 
 The `meta.license` attribute should preferably contain a value from `lib.licenses` defined in [`nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses.nix), or in-place license description of the same format if the license is unlikely to be useful in another expression.
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/qiv/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/graphics/qiv/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index e6c7ef2408e8..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/qiv/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-url http://spiegl.de/qiv/download/
-version_link '[.]tgz$'
-do_overwrite() { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/mupdf/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/misc/mupdf/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 852233633ca5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/mupdf/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-url https://mupdf.com/downloads/archive/
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  ensure_version
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/vifm/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/vifm/default.nix
index 2765cd5ad7aa..e3f2e80c47a5 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/vifm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/vifm/default.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     license = licenses.gpl2;
     downloadPage = "https://vifm.info/downloads.shtml";
     homepage = "https://vifm.info/";
-    updateWalker = true;
     changelog = "https://github.com/vifm/vifm/blob/v${version}/ChangeLog";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/gajim/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/gajim/default.nix
index 05a8b9969575..3c56d84db4b5 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/gajim/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/gajim/default.nix
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin abbradar ];
     downloadPage = "http://gajim.org/downloads.php";
-    updateWalker = true;
     platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix
index 2ca94953c4f6..3acd11a9a0d3 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     license = licenses.gpl2;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ pSub ];
     platforms = with platforms; linux;
-    updateWalker = true;
     downloadPage = "http://mcabber.com/files/";
-    downloadURLRegexp = "mcabber-[0-9.]+[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]+$";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/leo2/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/leo2/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 52b8ed1cdaa2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/leo2/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-url http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/cbenzmueller/leo/download.html
-version_link '[.]tgz'
-version '.*_v([0-9.]+)[.][a-z0-9]+$' '\1'
-do_overwrite () {
-  do_overwrite_just_version
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/potassco/clingo.upstream b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/potassco/clingo.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 062577d1451b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/potassco/clingo.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-target clingo.nix
-attribute_name clingo
-url https://github.com/potassco/clingo/releases/
-ensure_choice
-version '.*/v([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/satallax/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/satallax/default.nix
index 9bfad1fa010e..7a523bbf24ef 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/satallax/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/satallax/default.nix
@@ -66,6 +66,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
     downloadPage = "http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~cebrown/satallax/downloads.php";
     homepage = "http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~cebrown/satallax/index.php";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/pari/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/pari/default.nix
index 4ba1d5c6b474..a9c002d210f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/pari/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/pari/default.nix
@@ -82,6 +82,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ ertes AndersonTorres ] ++ teams.sage.members;
     platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/ratpoints/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/ratpoints/default.nix
index ec5d9ef366f8..dd8258a3456d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/ratpoints/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/ratpoints/default.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = [lib.maintainers.raskin];
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
     homepage = "http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/stoll/programs/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index e8ce81586a8d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/
-version_link '[-][0-9.]+/$'
-SF_version_tarball 'src'
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix
index 85993487fb37..405b9394552c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ let
       downloadPage = "https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/";
       license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
       maintainers = with maintainers; [ eelco lukegb pacien ];
-      updateWalker = true;
       platforms = platforms.unix;
     };
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index e0d01fb190c6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://www.monotone.ca/downloads.php
-
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_version
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/attrset-to-dir.nix b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/attrset-to-dir.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 006537278dae..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/attrset-to-dir.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-a :
-a.stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  buildCommand = ''
-    mkdir -p "$out/attributes"
-  '' + (a.lib.concatStrings (map
-    (n: ''
-      ln -s "${a.writeTextFile {name=n; text=builtins.getAttr n a.theAttrSet;}}" $out/attributes/${n};
-    '')
-    (builtins.attrNames a.theAttrSet)
-  ));
-
-  name = "attribute-set";
-  meta = {
-    description = "Contents of an attribute set";
-    maintainers = [
-      a.lib.maintainers.raskin
-    ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info-git.sh b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info-git.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6687a1f8f411..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info-git.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-
-[ -z "$1" ] && {
-  echo "Use $0 expression-basename repo-url branch-name package-base-name"
-  echo "Like:"
-  echo "$0 default http://git.example.com/repo origin/master hello"
-  exit 1;
-} >&2
-
-own_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; sh -c pwd)"
-
-cp "$own_dir/../builder-defs/template-bdp-uud.nix" "$1.nix" 
-sed -e "s@src-for-default.nix@src-for-$1.nix@g; 
-    s@fetchUrlFromSrcInfo@fetchGitFromSrcInfo@g" -i "$1.nix"
-echo '{}' > "src-for-$1.nix"
-cat << EOF > src-info-for-$1.nix
-{
-  repoUrl = "$2";
-  rev = "$3";
-  baseName = "$4";
-  method = "fetchgit";
-}
-EOF
-
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info.sh b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index fbbbe33a9e7b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-
-[ -z "$1" ] && {
-  echo "Use $0 expression-basename download-page package-base-name"
-  echo "Like:"
-  echo "$0 default http://example.com/downloads hello"
-  exit 1;
-} >&2
-
-own_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; sh -c pwd)"
-
-cp "$own_dir/../builder-defs/template-auto-callable.nix" "$1.nix" 
-sed -e "s@src-for-default.nix@src-for-$1.nix@g" -i "$1.nix"
-echo '{}' > "src-for-$1.nix"
-cat << EOF > src-info-for-$1.nix
-{
-  downloadPage = "$2";
-  baseName = "$3";
-}
-EOF
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/design.txt b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/design.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 128be89d2075..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/design.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Next to file.nix we get src-for-file.nix 
-src-for-file.nix should evaluate to a flat attribute set with 
-string values.
-It is supposed to be imported in the main expression.
-In the ideal world it can export url, hash, version.
-
-src-for-file.nix generation is directed by 
-src-info-for-file.nix.
-
-Attributes:
-
-src-info-for-file.nix:
-
-downloadPage
-rev (for repos)
-baseName (default = unnamed-package)
-sourceRegexp (default = '.*[.]tar[.].*')
-choiceCommand (default = 'head -1')
-versionExtractorSedScript (default = 's/.*-([0-9.]+)[.].*/\1/')
-versionReferenceCreator (default = 's/-([0-9.]+)[.]/-${version}./')
-mirrorSedScript (default = none)
-
-src-for-file.nix:
-
-advertisedUrl (its match is the check for update presence)
-url
-hash
-version
-name
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/snippets.sh b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/snippets.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c06696c928f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/snippets.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-# sed scripts
-
-#http://sourceforge.net/projects/webdruid/files/webdruid/0.6.0-alpha5/webdruid-0.6.0-alpha5.tar.gz/download
-#http://downloads.sourceforge.net/webdruid/files/webdruid/0.6.0-alpha5/webdruid-0.6.0-alpha5.tar.gz
-skipRedirectSF='s@sourceforge.net/projects@downloads.sourceforge.net/project@; s@/files@@; s@/download$@@;'
-extractReleaseSF='s@.*/([^/]+)/[^/]+@\1@'
-extractVersionSF='s@.*/[^/0-9]*([0-9].*)[.](tar|tgz|tbz2|zip).*@\1@'
-apacheMirror='s@http://www.apache.org/dist/@mirror://apache/@'
-skipRedirectApache='s@/dyn/closer.cgi[?]path=@/dist@'
-
-replaceAllVersionOccurences() {
-	echo s/"$version"/\${version}/g
-}
-dashDelimitedVersion='s/.*-([0-9.]+)-.*/\1/'
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/test-case.nix b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/test-case.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 498f15c28a78..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/test-case.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-{
-  a=1;
-  b="text";
-  c=''
-  text
-  '';
-  d=''
-    Multi-line text with special characters - 
-    like \ (backslash) and ''${} (dollar + 
-    curly braces) and $ (dollar) and ' (quote)
-    and " (double quote).
-  '';
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-upstream-data.sh b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-upstream-data.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 38c0d13a723d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-upstream-data.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-
-set -x
-
-own_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; sh -c pwd)"
-
-source "$own_dir/snippets.sh"
-
-[ -z "$1" ] && {
-  echo "Specify main expression filename."
-  exit 1;
-}
-
-main_file="$1"
-main_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "$main_file")" ; sh -c pwd)"
-file_name="$(basename "$main_file")"
-defs_file="$main_dir"/src-info-for-"$file_name"
-src_file="$main_dir"/src-for-"$file_name"
-# OK, [vcs] revert is always possible
-new_src_file="$main_dir"/src-for-"$file_name"
-
-forcedUrl="$2"
-
-defs_dir="$("$own_dir"/attrset-to-dir.sh "$defs_file")"
-src_defs_dir="$("$own_dir"/attrset-to-dir.sh "$src_file")"
-
-getAttr () {
-    file="$defs_dir"/"$1"
-    data="$( ( [ -f "$file" ] && cat "$file" ) || echo "$2" )"
-    echo "attribute $1 obtained as: [[$data]]" >&2
-    echo "$data"
-}
-
-method="$(getAttr method fetchurl)"
-baseName="$(getAttr baseName 'unnamed-package')"
-commonPrefetchVars=" version name hash"
-
-prefetchClause=""
-[ fetchSFdirs = "$method" ] && {
-    if [ -z "$forcedUrl" ]; then 
-	freshUrl="$("$own_dir"/urls-from-page.sh "$(getAttr downloadPage)" |
-          eval "egrep '$(getAttr sourceRegexp '[-][0-9.]+/$')'" | 
-	  eval "egrep -v '$(getAttr blacklistRegexp '^$')'" |
-	  eval "$(getAttr choiceCommand 'head -n 1')" |
-	  eval "$(getAttr versionToFileCommand "sed -re 's@/([^/]*-[0-9.]+)/@/\1/\1$(getAttr fileSuffix .tar.gz)@'")" 
-	)"
-
-	if ! egrep ':' <<< "$freshUrl" ; then 
-		freshUrl="$(dirname "$(getAttr downloadPage).")/$freshUrl"
-	fi
-
-	echo "Found download link: $freshUrl" >&2
-    else
-        freshUrl="$forcedUrl"
-    fi
-
-    freshUrl="$(echo "$freshUrl" | sed -re "$skipRedirectSF")"
-    echo "Sourceforge-corrected URL: $freshUrl" >&2
-    
-    version="$(echo "$freshUrl" | 
-      sed -re "$(getAttr versionExtractorSedScript "$extractVersionSF")")"
-    baseName="$(getAttr baseName "$(echo "$freshUrl" | sed -re 's@.*/project/([^/]+)/.*@\1@')")"
-    url="$freshUrl"
-    name="$baseName-$version"
-    advertisedUrl="$freshUrl"
-
-    if [ x"$freshUrl" = x"$(cat "$src_defs_dir"/advertisedUrl)" ]; then
-        echo "Source link not changed" >&2
-        exit
-    fi
-    hash=$(nix-prefetch-url "$freshUrl")
-
-    prefetchVars="url advertisedUrl";
-}
-[ fetchSF = "$method" ] && {
-    if [ -z "$forcedUrl" ]; then 
-	freshUrl="$("$own_dir"/urls-from-page.sh "$(getAttr downloadPage)" |
-          eval "egrep \"$(getAttr sourceRegexp '.*[.]tar[.].*|.*[.]tgz$|.*[.]tbz2$')\"" | 
-	  eval "egrep -v \"$(getAttr blacklistRegexp '^$')\"" |
-          eval "$(getAttr choiceCommand 'head -1')")"
-
-	if ! egrep ':' <<< "$freshUrl" ; then 
-		freshUrl="$(dirname "$(getAttr downloadPage).")/$freshUrl"
-	fi
-
-	echo "Found download link: $freshUrl" >&2
-    else
-        freshUrl="$forcedUrl"
-    fi
-
-    freshUrl="$(echo "$freshUrl" | sed -re "$skipRedirectSF")"
-    echo "Sourceforge-corrected URL: $freshUrl" >&2
-    
-    version="$(echo "$freshUrl" | 
-      sed -re "$(getAttr versionExtractorSedScript "$extractVersionSF")")"
-    baseName="$(getAttr baseName "$(echo "$freshUrl" | sed -re 's@.*/project/([^/]+)/.*@\1@')")"
-    url="$freshUrl"
-    name="$baseName-$version"
-    advertisedUrl="$freshUrl"
-
-    if [ x"$freshUrl" = x"$(cat "$src_defs_dir"/advertisedUrl)" ]; then
-        echo "Source link not changed" >&2
-        exit
-    fi
-    hash=$(nix-prefetch-url "$freshUrl")
-
-    prefetchVars="url advertisedUrl";
-}
-[ fetchurl = "$method" ] && {
-    if [ -z "$forcedUrl" ] ; then
-        freshUrl="$("$own_dir"/urls-from-page.sh "$(getAttr downloadPage)" |
-          eval "egrep \"$(getAttr sourceRegexp  '.*[.]tar[.].*|.*[.]tgz$|.*[.]tbz2$')\"" | 
-	  eval "egrep -v \"$(getAttr blacklistRegexp '^$')\"" |
-          eval "$(getAttr choiceCommand 'head -1')")"
-    
-        if ! egrep ':' <<< "$freshUrl" ; then 
-    	    freshUrl="$(dirname "$(getAttr downloadPage).")/$freshUrl"
-        fi
-    
-        echo "Found download link: $freshUrl" >&2
-    else
-        freshUrl="$forcedUrl"
-    fi
-    
-    version="$(echo "$freshUrl" | 
-      eval "sed -re \"$(getAttr versionExtractorSedScript \
-        's/.*-([0-9.]+)[.].*/\1/')\"")"
-    
-    mirrorUrl="$(echo "$freshUrl" | 
-      eval "sed -r -e \"$(getAttr versionReferenceCreator \
-        's/-'"${version}"'[.]/-\${version}./')\"" |
-      eval "sed -r -e \"$(getAttr mirrorSedScript)\"")"
-    url="$mirrorUrl"
-    
-    name="$baseName-$version"
-    
-    advertisedUrl="$freshUrl"
-    url="$mirrorUrl"
-    
-    if [ x"$freshUrl" = x"$(cat "$src_defs_dir"/advertisedUrl)" ]; then
-        echo "Source link not changed" >&2
-        exit
-    fi
-    hash=$(nix-prefetch-url "$freshUrl")
-
-    prefetchVars="url advertisedUrl";
-}
-[ "fetchgit" = "$method" ] && {
-    repoUrl="$(getAttr repoUrl)"
-    export NIX_PREFETCH_GIT_CHECKOUT_HOOK="
-        cat .git/HEAD
-    "
-    export NIX_HASH_ALGO=sha256
-    rev="$(getAttr rev '')";
-    rev_and_hash="$("$own_dir"/../fetchgit/nix-prefetch-git "$repoUrl" "$rev" | tee /dev/stderr | tail -2)"
-
-    rev="$(echo "$rev_and_hash" | head -1)"
-    url="$repoUrl";
-    hash="$(echo "$rev_and_hash" | tail -1)"
-    version="$rev"
-    name="$baseName-$version"
-
-    prefetchVars="rev url";
-}
-
-prefetchAssignments="";
-for i in $commonPrefetchVars $prefetchVars; do
-  prefetchAssignments="$prefetchAssignments $i=\"$(eval echo \"\$$i\")\";$(echo -e '\n  ')"
-done;
-
-extraAssignments=""
-for i in $(getAttr extraVars ''); do
-  eval "$(getAttr "eval_$i" 'i=""')"
-  extraAssignments="$extraAssignments $i=\"$(eval echo \"\$$i\")\";$(echo -e '\n  ')"
-done
-
-cat << EOF > "$new_src_file"
-rec {
-  $prefetchAssignments
-  $extraAssignments
-}
-EOF
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker-service-specific.sh b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker-service-specific.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index d92d223845e6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker-service-specific.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-SF_redirect () {
-  redirect 99
-  process 'http://[a-z]+[.]dl[.]sourceforge[.]net/' 'mirror://sourceforge/'
-  process '[?].*' ''
-}
-
-SF_version_dir () {
-  version_link 'http://sourceforge.net/.+/'"$1"'[0-9.]+/$'
-}
-
-SF_version_tarball () {
-  version_link "${1:-[.]tar[.]}.*/download\$"
-}
-
-GH_latest () {
-  prefetch_command_rel ../fetchgit/nix-prefetch-git
-  revision "$("$(dirname "$0")/urls-from-page.sh" "$CURRENT_URL/commits" | grep /commit/ | head -n 1 | xargs basename )"
-  version '.*' "git-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"
-  NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL=
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 9172a41718c8..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,320 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-
-own_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)"
-
-URL_WAS_SET=
-DL_URL_RE=
-CURRENT_URL=
-CURRENT_REV=
-PREFETCH_COMMAND=
-NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL=1
-
-url () {
-  URL_WAS_SET=1
-  CURRENT_URL="$1"
-}
-
-dl_url_re () {
-  DL_URL_RE="$1"
-}
-
-version_unpack () {
-  sed -re '
-    s/[.]/ /g; 
-    s@/@ / @g
-    s/-(rc|pre)/ -1 \1 /g; 
-    s/-(gamma)/ -2 \1 /g; 
-    s/-(beta)/ -3 \1 /g; 
-    s/-(alpha)/ -4 \1 /g;
-    s/[-]/ - /g; 
-    '
-}
-
-version_repack () {
-  sed -re '
-    s/ - /-/g;
-    s/ -[0-9]+ ([a-z]+) /-\1/g;
-    s@ / @/@g
-    s/ /./g; 
-    '
-}
-
-version_sort () {
-  version_unpack | 
-    sort -t ' ' -n $(for i in $(seq 30); do echo " -k${i}n" ; done) | tac |
-    version_repack
-}
-
-position_choice () {
-  head -n "${1:-1}" | tail -n "${2:-1}"
-}
-
-matching_links () {
-  "$own_dir"/urls-from-page.sh "$CURRENT_URL" | grep -E "$1"
-}
-
-link () {
-  CURRENT_URL="$(matching_links "$1" | position_choice "$2" "$3")"
-  unset NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL
-  echo "Linked by: $*"
-  echo "URL: $CURRENT_URL" >&2
-}
-
-version_link () {
-  CURRENT_URL="$(matching_links "$1" | version_sort | position_choice "$2" "$3")"
-  unset NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL
-  echo "Linked version by: $*"
-  echo "URL: $CURRENT_URL" >&2
-}
-
-redirect () {
-  CURRENT_URL="$(curl -I -L --max-redirs "${1:-99}" "$CURRENT_URL" | 
-    grep -E '^[Ll]ocation: ' | position_choice "${2:-999999}" "$3" |
-    sed -e 's/^[Ll]ocation: //; s/\r//')"
-  echo "Redirected: $*"
-  echo "URL: $CURRENT_URL" >&2
-}
-
-replace () {
-  sed -re "s	$1	$2	g"
-}
-
-process () {
-  CURRENT_URL="$(echo "$CURRENT_URL" | replace "$1" "$2")"
-  echo "Processed: $*"
-  echo "URL: $CURRENT_URL" >&2
-}
-
-version () {
-  CURRENT_VERSION="$(echo "$CURRENT_URL" | replace "$1" "$2")"
-  echo "Version: $CURRENT_VERSION" >&2
-}
-
-ensure_version () {
-  echo "Ensuring version. CURRENT_VERSION: $CURRENT_VERSION" >&2
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_VERSION" ] && version '.*-([0-9.]+)[-._].*' '\1'
-}
-
-ensure_target () {
-  echo "Ensuring target. CURRENT_TARGET: $CURRENT_TARGET" >&2
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_TARGET" ] && target "$(basename "$CONFIG_NAME" .upstream).nix"
-}
-
-ensure_name () {
-  echo "Ensuring name. CURRENT_NAME: $CURRENT_NAME" >&2
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_NAME" ] && name "$(basename "$CONFIG_DIR")"
-  echo "Resulting name: $CURRENT_NAME"
-}
-
-ensure_attribute_name () {
-  echo "Ensuring attribute name. CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME: $CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME" >&2
-  ensure_name
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME" ] && attribute_name "$CURRENT_NAME"
-  echo "Resulting attribute name: $CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME"
-}
-
-ensure_url () {
-  echo "Ensuring starting URL. CURRENT_URL: $CURRENT_URL" >&2
-  ensure_attribute_name
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_URL" ] && CURRENT_URL="$(retrieve_meta downloadPage)"
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_URL" ] && CURRENT_URL="$(retrieve_meta downloadpage)"
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_URL" ] && CURRENT_URL="$(retrieve_meta homepage)"
-  echo "Resulting URL: $CURRENT_URL"
-}
-
-ensure_choice () {
-  echo "Ensuring that choice is made." >&2
-  echo "NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL: [$NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL]." >&2
-  echo "CURRENT_URL: $CURRENT_URL" >&2
-  [ -z "$URL_WAS_SET" ] && [ -z "$CURRENT_URL" ] && ensure_url
-  [ -n "$NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL" ] && {
-    version_link "${DL_URL_RE:-[.]tar[.]([^./])+\$}"
-    unset NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL
-  }
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_URL" ] && {
-    echo "Error: empty CURRENT_URL"
-    echo "Error: empty CURRENT_URL" >&2
-    exit 1
-  }
-}
-
-revision () {
-  CURRENT_REV="$1"
-  echo "CURRENT_REV: $CURRENT_REV"
-}
-
-prefetch_command () {
-  PREFETCH_COMMAND="$1"
-}
-
-prefetch_command_rel () {
-  PREFETCH_COMMAND="$(dirname "$0")/$1"
-}
-
-ensure_hash () {
-  echo "Ensuring hash. CURRENT_HASH: $CURRENT_HASH" >&2
-  [ -z "$CURRENT_HASH" ] && hash
-}
-
-hash () {
-  CURRENT_HASH="$(${PREFETCH_COMMAND:-nix-prefetch-url} "$CURRENT_URL" $CURRENT_REV)"
-  echo "CURRENT_HASH: $CURRENT_HASH" >&2
-}
-
-name () {
-  CURRENT_NAME="$1"
-  echo "CURRENT_NAME: $CURRENT_NAME" >&2
-}
-
-attribute_name () {
-  CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME="$1"
-  echo "CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME: $CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME" >&2
-}
-
-retrieve_meta () {
-  nix-instantiate --eval-only '<nixpkgs>' -A "$CURRENT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME".meta."$1" | xargs
-}
-
-retrieve_version () {
-  PACKAGED_VERSION="$(retrieve_meta version)"
-}
-
-ensure_dl_url_re () {
-  echo "Ensuring DL_URL_RE. DL_URL_RE: $DL_URL_RE" >&2
-  [ -z "$DL_URL_RE" ] && dl_url_re "$(retrieve_meta downloadURLRegexp)"
-  echo "DL_URL_RE: $DL_URL_RE" >&2
-}
-
-directory_of () {
-  cd "$(dirname "$1")"; pwd
-}
-
-full_path () {
-  echo "$(directory_of "$1")/$(basename "$1")"
-}
-
-target () {
-  CURRENT_TARGET="$1"
-  { [ "$CURRENT_TARGET" = "${CURRENT_TARGET#/}" ] && CURRENT_TARGET="$CONFIG_DIR/$CURRENT_TARGET"; }
-  echo "Target set to: $CURRENT_TARGET"
-}
-
-marker () {
-  BEGIN_EXPRESSION="$1"
-}
-
-update_found () {
-  echo "Compare: $CURRENT_VERSION vs $PACKAGED_VERSION"
-  [ "$CURRENT_VERSION" != "$PACKAGED_VERSION" ]
-}
-
-do_write_expression () {
-  echo "${1}rec {"
-  echo "${1}  baseName=\"$CURRENT_NAME\";"
-  echo "${1}  version=\"$CURRENT_VERSION\";"
-  echo "${1}  name=\"\${baseName}-\${version}\";"
-  echo "${1}  hash=\"$CURRENT_HASH\";"
-  echo "${1}  url=\"$CURRENT_URL\";"
-  [ -n "$CURRENT_REV" ] && echo "${1}  rev=\"$CURRENT_REV\";"
-  echo "${1}  sha256=\"$CURRENT_HASH\";"
-  echo "$2"
-}
-
-line_position () {
-  file="$1"
-  regexp="$2"
-  count="${3:-1}"
-  grep -E "$regexp" -m "$count" -B 999999 "$file" | wc -l
-}
-
-replace_once () {
-  file="$1"
-  regexp="$2"
-  replacement="$3"
-  instance="${4:-1}"
-
-  echo "Replacing once:"
-  echo "file: [[$file]]"
-  echo "regexp: [[$regexp]]"
-  echo "replacement: [[$replacement]]"
-  echo "instance: [[$instance]]"
-
-  position="$(line_position "$file" "$regexp" "$instance")"
-  sed -re "${position}s	$regexp	$replacement	" -i "$file"
-}
-
-set_var_value () {
-  var="${1}"
-  value="${2}"
-  instance="${3:-1}"
-  file="${4:-$CURRENT_TARGET}"
-  no_quotes="${5:-0}"
-
-  quote='"'
-  let "$no_quotes" && quote=""
-
-  replace_once "$file" "${var} *= *.*" "${var} = ${quote}${value}${quote};" "$instance"
-}
-
-do_regenerate () {
-  BEFORE="$(cat "$1" | grep -F "$BEGIN_EXPRESSION" -B 999999;)"
-  AFTER_EXPANDED="$(cat "$1" | grep -F "$BEGIN_EXPRESSION" -A 999999 | grep -E '^ *[}] *; *$' -A 999999;)"
-  AFTER="$(echo "$AFTER_EXPANDED" | tail -n +2)"
-  CLOSE_BRACE="$(echo "$AFTER_EXPANDED" | head -n 1)"
-  SPACING="$(echo "$CLOSE_BRACE" | sed -re 's/[^ ].*//')"
-
-  echo "$BEFORE"
-  do_write_expression "$SPACING" "$CLOSE_BRACE"
-  echo "$AFTER"
-}
-
-do_overwrite () {
-  ensure_hash
-  do_regenerate "$1" > "$1.new.tmp"
-  mv "$1.new.tmp" "$1"
-}
-
-do_overwrite_just_version () {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-}
-
-minimize_overwrite() {
-  do_overwrite(){
-    do_overwrite_just_version
-  }
-}
-
-process_config () {
-  CONFIG_DIR="$(directory_of "$1")"
-  CONFIG_NAME="$(basename "$1")"
-  BEGIN_EXPRESSION='# Generated upstream information';
-  if [ -f  "$CONFIG_DIR/$CONFIG_NAME" ] &&
-      [ "${CONFIG_NAME}" = "${CONFIG_NAME%.nix}" ]; then
-    source "$CONFIG_DIR/$CONFIG_NAME"
-  else
-    CONFIG_NAME="${CONFIG_NAME%.nix}"
-    ensure_attribute_name
-    [ -n "$(retrieve_meta updateWalker)" ] ||
-        [ -n "$FORCE_UPDATE_WALKER" ] || {
-      echo "Error: package not marked as safe for update-walker" >&2
-      echo "Set FORCE_UPDATE_WALKER=1 to override" >&2
-      exit 1;
-    }
-    [ -z "$(retrieve_meta fullRegenerate)" ] && eval "
-      minimize_overwrite
-    "
-  fi
-  ensure_attribute_name
-  retrieve_version
-  ensure_dl_url_re
-  ensure_choice
-  ensure_version
-  ensure_target
-  update_found && do_overwrite "$CURRENT_TARGET"
-}
-
-source "$own_dir/update-walker-service-specific.sh"
-
-process_config "$1"
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.txt b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ae47e5590294..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-update-walker is an imperative semiautomated update helper.
-
-It runs the X.upstream file to find the freshest version of the package in
-the specified upstream source and updates the corresponding X.nix file.
-
-
-
-The simplest available commands:
-
-url: set the upstream source list URL equal to $1; the default is
-meta.downloadPage with meta.homepage fallback
-
-dl_url_re: set the regular expression used to select download links to $1; the
-default is meta.downloadURLRegexp or '[.]tar[.]([^./])+\$' if it is not set
-
-target: specify target expression; default is to replace .upstream extension
-with .nix extension
-
-name: specify the derivation name; default is the basename of the dirname
-of the .upstream file
-
-attribute_name: specify the attribute name to evaluate for getting the current
-version from meta.version; default is to use the derivation name
-
-minimize_overwrite: set config options that mean that only version= and
-sha256= have to be replaced; the default is to regenerate a full upstream
-description block with url, name, version, hash etc.
-
-
-
-A lot of packages can be updated in a pseudo-declarative style using only
-the commands from the previous paragraph.
-
-Some packages do not need any non-default settings, in these case just setting
-meta.updateWalker to true is enough, you can run update-walker directly on the
-.nix file afterwards. In this case minimize_overwrite it implied unless
-meta.fullRegenerate is set.
-
-
-
-The packages that require more fine-grained control than the described options
-allow, you need to take into account the default control flow of the tool.
-
-First, the definitions from update-walker script and additional definitions
-from update-walker-service-specific.sh are loaded. Then the config is executed
-as a shell script. Some of the commands it can use do remember whether they
-have been used. Afterwards the following steps happen: 
-
-attribute_name is set to name unless it has been already set
-
-meta.version is read from the NixPkgs package called attribute_name
-
-download URL regexp is set to default unless it has been already set in the
-updater script
-
-the download page URL gets set to default value unless it has been set
-previously
-
-if the action of getting the download page and choosing the freshest link by
-version has not yet been taken, it happens
-
-if the version has not yet been extracted from the URL, it gets extracted
-
-target nix expression to update gets set to the default value unless it has
-been set explicitly
-
-if the URL version is fresher than the packaged version, the new file gets
-downloaded and its hash is calculated
-
-do_overwrite function is called; the default calculates a big upstream data
-block and puts it after the '# Generated upstream information' marker (the
-marker can be changed by the command marker)
-
-
-
-If the update needs some special logic, it is put into the updater script and
-the corresponding steps are skipped because the needed action has already been
-performed. 
-
-For example: 
-
-minimize_overwrite is exactly the same as
-
-do_overwrite() { do_overwrite_just_version; }
-
-redefinition. You can do a more complex do_overwrite redifinition, if needed.
-It can probably use ensure_hash to download the source and calculate the hash
-and set_var_value.
-
-set_var_value alters the $3-th instance of assigning the $1 name in the
-expression to the value $2. $3 defaults to 1. It can modify $4 instead of the
-current target, it can put the value without quotes if $5 is 1.
-
-
-
-Typical steps include:
-
-ensure_choice: download current URL and find the freshest version link on the
-page, it is now the new URL
-
-ensure_hash: download current URL and calculate the source package hash
-
-ensure_version: extract version from the URL
-
-SF_redirect: replace the current URL with a SourceForge.net mirror:// URL
-
-SF_version_dir: assume SourceForge.net layout and choose the freshest
-version-named subdirectory in the file catalog; you can optionally specify $1
-as a directory name regexp (digits and periods will be required after it)
-
-SF_version_tarball: assume SourceForge.net layout and choose the freshest
-tarball download link
-
-version: apply replacement of $1 with $2 (extended regexp format) to extract
-the version from URL
-
-version_link: choose the freshest versioned link, $1 is the regexp of
-acceptable links
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f16c1b645cd..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Source/
-SF_version_dir
-version_link 'fpcbuild-[0-9.]+[.]tar[.]gz/download$'
-SF_redirect
-version '.*-([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.]gz' '\1'
-do_overwrite () { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/common.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/common.nix
index 9cfb38109f7b..6a3b40066d99 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/sbcl/common.nix
@@ -119,7 +119,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     }
   '');
 
-  meta = sbclBootstrap.meta // {
-    updateWalker = true;
-  };
+  meta = sbclBootstrap.meta;
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/regina/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/interpreters/regina/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 481d9848f830..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/regina/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/regina-rexx/files/regina-rexx/
-SF_version_dir
-SF_version_tarball
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/2.0.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/2.0.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 74eb1a2ca83f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/2.0.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-url https://botan.randombit.net/
-version_link 'Botan-[0-9]+([.][0-9]+)*[.](tgz|tbz|tbz2|tar[.]bz2)$'
-ensure_version
-attribute_name botan2
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-  set_var_value baseVersion ${CURRENT_VERSION%.*}
-  set_var_value revision ${CURRENT_VERSION##*.}
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 43f6a3b268ee..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-url http://botan.randombit.net/download.html
-version_link 'Botan-[0-9]+[.][0-9]*[02468]([.][0-9]+)?[.](tgz|tbz|tbz2|tar[.]bz2)$'
-ensure_version
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-  set_var_value baseVersion ${CURRENT_VERSION%.*}
-  set_var_value revision ${CURRENT_VERSION##*.}
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index c0c05efc466c..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/
-ensure_choice
-version '.*/([-0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-do_overwrite() { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/flint/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/flint/default.nix
index 858144b150aa..6873508eb7dc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/flint/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/flint/default.nix
@@ -51,6 +51,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = platforms.unix;
     homepage = "https://www.flintlib.org/";
     downloadPage = "https://www.flintlib.org/downloads.html";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/iml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/iml/default.nix
index 474605fe7696..884cebab2e30 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/iml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/iml/default.nix
@@ -24,6 +24,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = [lib.maintainers.raskin];
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
     homepage = "https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~astorjoh/iml.html";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix
index 7965c934df3e..378a7202f371 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
     homepage = "https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries/libzmf";
     downloadPage = "http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/libzmf/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix
index a8d9b23cc84c..fb5409a7e727 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     description = "A lightweight C library for the Jabber protocol";
     platforms = platforms.all;
     downloadPage = "http://mcabber.com/files/loudmouth/";
-    downloadURLRegexp = "loudmouth-[0-9.]+[.]tar[.]bz2$";
-    updateWalker = true;
     license = licenses.lgpl21;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mdds/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/mdds/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 96c5bc35d169..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mdds/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-url https://gitlab.com/mdds/mdds
-version_link 'mdds-.*[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]+$'
-version '.*-([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  ensure_version
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mpir/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/mpir/default.nix
index b8ee4fb4e765..b7d31066de1a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mpir/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/mpir/default.nix
@@ -21,6 +21,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
     downloadPage = "https://mpir.org/downloads.html";
     homepage = "https://mpir.org/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/osip/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/osip/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index ba0ed2a9b299..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/osip/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-url http://ftp.u-tx.net/gnu/osip/
-attribute_name libosip
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/phash/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/phash/default.nix
index 8d3f3e987023..4596c5aaf4f6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/phash/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/phash/default.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = platforms.all;
     homepage = "http://www.phash.org";
     downloadPage = "https://github.com/clearscene/pHash";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/safefile/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/safefile/default.nix
index 2865ab06319f..1f49afbacff2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/safefile/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/safefile/default.nix
@@ -8,20 +8,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1y0gikds2nr8jk8smhrl617njk23ymmpxyjb2j1xbj0k82xspv78";
   };
 
-  passthru = {
-    updateScript = ''
-      #!${runtimeShell}
-      cd ${toString ./.}
-      ${toString path}/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh default.nix
-    '';
-  };
-
-  meta = {
+  meta = with lib; {
     description = "File open routines to safely open a file when in the presence of an attack";
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20 ;
-    maintainers = [lib.maintainers.raskin];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ raskin ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
     homepage = "https://research.cs.wisc.edu/mist/safefile/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/spandsp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/spandsp/default.nix
index 406603e66225..f2bc63d4f6d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/spandsp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/spandsp/default.nix
@@ -29,6 +29,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [raskin];
     license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
     downloadPage = "http://www.soft-switch.org/downloads/spandsp/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlsec/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlsec/default.nix
index 1f63b2cfc871..5f2557514804 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlsec/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlsec/default.nix
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     description = "XML Security Library in C based on libxml2";
     license = lib.licenses.mit;
     platforms = with lib.platforms; linux ++ darwin;
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
 )
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix
index f18d09bf7d0e..5671f5dbe641 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/jq/default.nix
@@ -72,6 +72,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ raskin globin ];
     platforms = platforms.unix;
     downloadPage = "https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/3.7.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/3.7.nix
index aa49af753b32..95fa79c6d125 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/3.7.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/3.7.nix
@@ -77,6 +77,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with maintainers; [raskin teto];
     platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
     downloadPage = "http://luarocks.org/releases/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/default.nix
index c2449de5dd28..58f5996992af 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/default.nix
@@ -77,6 +77,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with maintainers; [raskin teto];
     platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
     downloadPage = "http://luarocks.org/releases/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/games/blobby/default.upstream b/pkgs/games/blobby/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f2804e07946..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/blobby/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/blobby/files/Blobby%20Volley%202%20%28Linux%29/
-SF_version_dir
-version_link '[.]tar[.][^.]+/download$'
-SF_redirect
-do_overwrite(){
-  do_overwrite_just_version
-  set_var_value url $CURRENT_URL
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/games/sgt-puzzles/default.upstream b/pkgs/games/sgt-puzzles/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index b6d048b68ae9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/sgt-puzzles/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-minimize_overwrite
-url http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles.tar.gz
-redirect
-NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL=
-version '.*[-_.]([0-9]{8}[.][^.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/screensavers/xscreensaver/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/screensavers/xscreensaver/default.nix
index b90f75f6a042..5c30040f4912 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/screensavers/xscreensaver/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/screensavers/xscreensaver/default.nix
@@ -62,6 +62,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin ];
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix; # Once had cygwin problems
     downloadPage = "https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/atop/default.upstream b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/atop/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 46099d9c9595..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/atop/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url http://atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php
-version_link '[.]tar[.]'
-version '[^0-9]*[-.]([0-9]([-0-9.]*[0-9])?)[.].*' '\1'
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/iptables/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/iptables/default.nix
index 50730597d9e6..c6dc10f32bac 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/iptables/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/iptables/default.nix
@@ -49,6 +49,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ fpletz ];
     license = licenses.gpl2;
     downloadPage = "https://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/files/";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/sysdig/default.upstream b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/sysdig/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 485de5741d79..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/sysdig/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url https://github.com/draios/sysdig/releases
-ensure_choice
-version '.*/([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-do_overwrite () {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/mainline.upstream b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/mainline.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bb025499592..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/mainline.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://nginx.org/en/download.html
-version_link '.*-([0-9]+[.][0-9]+([.][0-9]+)*)[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]*$' 
-
-do_overwrite() {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/stable.upstream b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/stable.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index c20139017436..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/stable.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://nginx.org/en/download.html
-version_link '.*-([0-9]+[.][0-9]*[02468]([.][0-9]+)*)[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]*$' 
-
-do_overwrite() {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix
index ba3c8eef20e6..7a70accb723f 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix
@@ -236,7 +236,6 @@ let
     name = str;
     version = str;
     tag = str;
-    updateWalker = bool;
     executables = listOf str;
     outputsToInstall = listOf str;
     position = str;
@@ -244,7 +243,6 @@ let
     repositories = attrsOf str;
     isBuildPythonPackage = platforms;
     schedulingPriority = int;
-    downloadURLRegexp = str;
     isFcitxEngine = bool;
     isIbusEngine = bool;
     isGutenprint = bool;
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/X11/autocutsel/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/X11/autocutsel/default.nix
index 036ba8bc4e9a..61a80bcbcdd6 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/X11/autocutsel/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/X11/autocutsel/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     description = "Tracks changes in the server's cutbuffer and CLIPBOARD selection";
     license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
     platforms = with lib.platforms; all;
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/X11/xpra/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/X11/xpra/default.nix
index 78aaa355d6e2..330722898ce6 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/X11/xpra/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/X11/xpra/default.nix
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ in buildPythonApplication rec {
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://xpra.org/";
     downloadPage = "https://xpra.org/src/";
-    downloadURLRegexp = "xpra-.*[.]tar[.][gx]z$";
     description = "Persistent remote applications for X";
     platforms = platforms.linux;
     license = licenses.gpl2;
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b8345986374..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/
-version_link '[.]tar[.]bz2$'
-
-do_overwrite () {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/nilfs-utils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/nilfs-utils/default.nix
index 3c2dfaf2f1d3..fe2047a6f139 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/nilfs-utils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/nilfs-utils/default.nix
@@ -47,6 +47,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = platforms.linux;
     license =  with licenses; [ gpl2 lgpl21 ];
     downloadPage = "http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/download.html";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.nix
index bb042a95ecc4..a1831d44ada4 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = platforms.linux;
     license = licenses.gpl2;
     downloadPage = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/smbnetfs/files/smbnetfs";
-    updateWalker = true;
     homepage = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/smbnetfs/";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index d56fa42f1d1b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/smbnetfs/files/smbnetfs/
-version_link '[-][0-9.]+[a-z]*/$'
-version_link '[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]+/download$'
-SF_redirect
-version '.*[-]([0-9.]+[a-z]*)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-do_overwrite () { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/barcode/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/barcode/default.nix
index e77e8fae0c23..eed06602a5dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/barcode/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/barcode/default.nix
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ raskin ];
     platforms = platforms.linux; # Maybe other non-darwin Unix
     downloadPage = "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/barcode/";
-    updateWalker = true;
     homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/";
     license = licenses.gpl3;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/cuneiform/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/graphics/cuneiform/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fb85a2a1e89..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/cuneiform/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/+download
-
-do_overwrite () {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-  set_var_value ' url' "$CURRENT_URL"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/ised/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/misc/ised/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 6539bf477e54..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/ised/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url http://ised.sourceforge.net/web_nav.html
-SF_version_tarball
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/mc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/mc/default.nix
index 511314324fc2..3b12175fb567 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/mc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/mc/default.nix
@@ -94,6 +94,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ sander ];
     platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin;
     repositories.git = "https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc.git";
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail6/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail6/default.nix
index 54c9c9fca050..dc508ff53efe 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail6/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail6/default.nix
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A program for retrieving mail";
     homepage = "https://getmail6.org";
-    updateWalker = true;
     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbe dotlambda ];
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/dd_rescue/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/dd_rescue/default.nix
index ce996bf7c6f4..f7501d768034 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/dd_rescue/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/dd_rescue/default.nix
@@ -36,6 +36,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = platforms.linux;
     homepage = "http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/";
     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/di/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/di/default.nix
index 6dcd3e87f68f..06d91305909c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/di/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/di/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     description = "Disk information utility; displays everything 'df' does and more";
     homepage = "https://gentoo.com/di/";
     license = licenses.zlib;
-    updateWalker = true;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ manveru ];
     platforms = platforms.all;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/freeipmi/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/freeipmi/default.nix
index 9d2e66876239..a3bb99735a17 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/freeipmi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/freeipmi/default.nix
@@ -37,7 +37,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin ];
     platforms = lib.platforms.gnu ++ lib.platforms.linux;  # arbitrary choice
-
-    updateWalker = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/ipmiutil/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/system/ipmiutil/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 45e3a936825a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/ipmiutil/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmiutil/files/
-SF_version_tarball
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite