diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/header2/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/header2/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 171d8c6b16ae..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/header2/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{ fetchurl, lib, melpaBuild }:
-
-melpaBuild {
-  pname = "header2";
-  version = "20170223.1949";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/header2.el";
-    sha256 = "0cv74cfihr13jrgyqbj4x0na659djfyrhflxni6jdbgbysi4zf6k";
-    name = "header2.el";
-  };
-
-  recipe = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milkypostman/melpa/a5d15f875b0080b12ce45cf696c581f6bbf061ba/recipes/header2";
-    sha256 = "1dg25krx3wxma2l5vb2ji7rpfp17qbrl62jyjpa52cjfsvyp6v06";
-    name = "header2";
-  };
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://melpa.org/#/header2";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl3;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
index 9711a1ccbb22..993f08fb3d92 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@
     };
   };
 
-  header2 = callPackage ./header2 { };
-
   helm-words = callPackage ./helm-words { };
 
   icicles = callPackage ./icicles { };