diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/telepathy/qt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/telepathy/qt/default.nix
index b8e438819db3..2addb86246dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/telepathy/qt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/telepathy/qt/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, qtbase, pkgconfig, python2Packages, dbus-glib, dbus
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, qtbase, pkgconfig, python3Packages, dbus-glib, dbus
 , telepathy-farstream, telepathy-glib, fetchpatch }:
 
 let
-  inherit (python2Packages) python dbus-python;
+  inherit (python3Packages) python dbus-python;
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "telepathy-qt-0.9.7";
+  name = "telepathy-qt-0.9.8";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-qt/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0krxd4hhfx6r0ja19wh3848j7gn1rv8jrnakgmkbmi7bww5x7fi1";
+    sha256 = "bf8e2a09060addb80475a4938105b9b41d9e6837999b7a00e5351783857e18ad";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig python ];
@@ -16,14 +16,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];
   checkInputs = [ dbus.daemon dbus-python ];
 
-  patches = [
-    # https://github.com/TelepathyIM/telepathy-qt/issues/25
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/TelepathyIM/telepathy-qt/commit/d654dc70dbec7097e96e6d96ca74ab1b5b00ef8c.patch";
-      sha256 = "1jzd9b9rqh3c8xlq8dr7c0r8aabzf5ywv2gpkk6phh3xwngzrfbh";
-    })
-  ];
-
   # No point in building tests if they are not run
   # On 0.9.7, they do not even build with QT4
   cmakeFlags = stdenv.lib.optional (!doCheck) "-DENABLE_TESTS=OFF";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index f9487820bafd..a68232fef04a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   telepathy_idle = telepathy-idle; # added 2018-02-25
   telepathy_logger = telepathy-logger; # added 2018-02-25
   telepathy_mission_control = telepathy-mission-control; # added 2018-02-25
+  telepathy-qt = throw "telepathy-qt no longer supports Qt 4. Please use libsForQt5.telepathy instead."; # added 2020-07-02
   telepathy_qt = telepathy-qt; # added 2018-02-25
   telepathy_qt5 = libsForQt5.telepathy;  # added 2015-12-19
   telepathy_salut = telepathy-salut; # added 2018-02-25
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3501d51363f9..c6c04137367d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14985,8 +14985,6 @@ in
 
   telepathy-farstream = callPackage ../development/libraries/telepathy/farstream {};
 
-  telepathy-qt = callPackage ../development/libraries/telepathy/qt { qtbase = qt4; };
-
   termbox = callPackage ../development/libraries/termbox { };
 
   tevent = callPackage ../development/libraries/tevent { };