diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyres/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyres/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 4aeccc1d360a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyres/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, simplejson, redis, setproctitle, nose, pkgs }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pyres";
-  version = "1.5";
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ simplejson setproctitle redis pkgs.ps ];
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ nose pkgs.redis ];
-
-  # PyPI tarball doesn't contain tests so let's use GitHub
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "binarydud";
-    repo = pname;
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1rkpv7gbjxl9h9g7kncmsrgmi77l7pgfq8d7dbnsr3ia2jmjqb8y";
-  };
-
-  # started redis-server makes this hang on darwin
-  doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin;
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    redis-server &
-    nosetests . --exclude test_worker_pids
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Python resque clone";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/binarydud/pyres";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jluttine ];
-    broken = true; # not compatible with latest redis
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 11052f5cde5b..776ac5734e97 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   pyramid_hawkauth = throw "pyramid_hawkauth has been removed because it is no longer maintained"; # added 2023-02-2
   pyramid_jinja2 = pyramid-jinja2; # added 2023-06-06
   pyreadability = readability-lxml; # added 2022-05-24
+  pyres = throw "pyres has been removed, since it is abandoned and broken"; # added 2023-06-20
   pyroute2-core = throw "pyroute2 migrated back to a single package scheme in version 0.7.1"; # added 2022-07-16
   pyroute2-ethtool = throw "pyroute2 migrated back to a single package scheme in version 0.7.1"; # added 2022-07-16
   pyroute2-ipdb = throw "pyroute2 migrated back to a single package scheme in version 0.7.1"; # added 2022-07-16
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 7d3e4d186a17..64a42bb61cce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -9269,8 +9269,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   pyregion = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyregion { };
 
-  pyres = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyres { };
-
   pyric = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyric { };
 
   pyrisco = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyrisco { };