diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/gawp/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/gawp/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index bd102e868aeb..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/gawp/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
-
-buildGoPackage rec {
-  pname = "gawp";
-  version = "unstable-2016-01-21";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/martingallagher/gawp";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "martingallagher";
-    repo = "gawp";
-    rev = "5db2d8faa220e8d6eaf8677354bd197bf621ff7f";
-    sha256 = "sha256-DGTSz+4gaEd+FMSPvtY6kY4gJGnJah3exvu13sNadS0=";
-  };
-
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/martingallagher/gawp";
-    description = "A simple, configurable, file watching, job execution tool";
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/gawp/deps.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/gawp/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index cf577a30354c..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/gawp/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/sys";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/sys";
-      rev = "d9157a9621b69ad1d8d77a1933590c416593f24f";
-      sha256 = "1asdbp7rj1j1m1aar1a022wpcwbml6zih6cpbxaw7b2m8v8is931";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1";
-      rev = "96c060f6a6b7e0d6f75fddd10efeaca3e5d1bcb0";
-      sha256 = "1308z1by82fbymcra26wjzw7lpjy91kbpp2skmwqcq4q1iwwzvk2";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
-      rev = "a83829b6f1293c91addabc89d0571c246397bbf4";
-      sha256 = "1m4dsmk90sbi17571h6pld44zxz7jc4lrnl4f27dpd1l8g5xvjhh";
-    };
-  }
-]
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 921827488255..aec2b39e5b70 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ mapAliases ({
 
   g4py = python3Packages.geant4; # Added 2020-06-06
   gaia = throw "gaia has been removed because it seems abandoned upstream and uses no longer supported dependencies"; # Added 2020-06-06
+  gawp = throw "gawp has been dropped due to the lack of maintanence from upstream since 2017"; # Added 2022-06-02
   gdal_1_11 = throw "gdal_1_11 was removed. Use gdal instead"; # Added 2021-04-03
   gdb-multitarget = throw "'gdb-multitarget' has been renamed to/replaced by 'gdb'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   gdk_pixbuf = throw "'gdk_pixbuf' has been renamed to/replaced by 'gdk-pixbuf'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 68c03ac3d468..1599a33618fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6132,8 +6132,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   gawkInteractive = gawk.override { interactive = true; };
 
-  gawp = callPackage ../tools/misc/gawp { };
-
   gbdfed = callPackage ../tools/misc/gbdfed {
     gtk = gtk2-x11;
   };