diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index c76374022020..a5fa409a301f 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ luabitop,,,,
 luaevent,,,,
 luacheck,,,,
 luaffi,,http://luarocks.org/dev,,
+luazip,,,,
 luuid,,,,
 markdown,,,,
 penlight,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 8797aab422fe..9f24f7efe0ab 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -614,6 +614,25 @@ luaffi = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+luazip = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "luazip";
+  version = "1.2.7-1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = https://luarocks.org/luazip-1.2.7-1.src.rock;
+    sha256 = "1yprlr1ap6bhshhy88qfphmmyg9zp1py2hj2158iw6vsva0fk03l";
+  };
+  disabled = (luaOlder "5.1") || (luaAtLeast "5.4");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mpeterv/luazip";
+    description = "Library for reading files inside zip files";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT";
+    };
+  };
+};
 luuid = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "luuid";
   version = "20120509-2";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index 935de7cf0159..78639b4ffd37 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ with super;
   lua-iconv = super.lua-iconv.override({
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.libiconv ];
   });
+  luazip = super.luazip.override({
+    buildInputs = [ pkgs.zziplib ];
+  });
   luv = super.luv.overrideAttrs(oa: {
     # Use system libuv instead of building local and statically linking
     # This is a hacky way to specify -DWITH_SHARED_LIBUV=ON which
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
index 7c9a4bbe5838..b5439e551bac 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
@@ -482,33 +482,6 @@ with self; {
     };
   };
 
-  luazip = buildLuaPackage rec {
-    name = "zip-${version}";
-    version = "2007-10-30";
-
-    src = fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "luaforge";
-      repo = "luazip";
-      rev = "0b8f5c958e170b1b49f05bc267bc0351ad4dfc44";
-      sha256 = "0zrrwhmzny5zbpx91bjbl77gzkvvdi3qhhviliggp0aj8w3faxsr";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [ zziplib ];
-
-    patches = [ ../development/lua-modules/zip.patch ];
-
-    # Does not currently work under Lua 5.2 or LuaJIT.
-    disabled = isLua52 || isLua53 || isLuaJIT;
-
-    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      description = "Lua library to read files stored inside zip files";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/luaforge/luazip";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ vyp ];
-      platforms = platforms.linux;
-    };
-  };
-
   luazlib = buildLuaPackage rec {
     name = "zlib-${version}";
     version = "1.1";