diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/qiv/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/graphics/qiv/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index e6c7ef2408e8..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/qiv/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-url http://spiegl.de/qiv/download/
-version_link '[.]tgz$'
-do_overwrite() { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/mupdf/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/misc/mupdf/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 852233633ca5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/mupdf/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-url https://mupdf.com/downloads/archive/
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  ensure_version
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/leo2/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/leo2/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 52b8ed1cdaa2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/leo2/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-url http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/cbenzmueller/leo/download.html
-version_link '[.]tgz'
-version '.*_v([0-9.]+)[.][a-z0-9]+$' '\1'
-do_overwrite () {
-  do_overwrite_just_version
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/potassco/clingo.upstream b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/potassco/clingo.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 062577d1451b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/potassco/clingo.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-target clingo.nix
-attribute_name clingo
-url https://github.com/potassco/clingo/releases/
-ensure_choice
-version '.*/v([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index e8ce81586a8d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/
-version_link '[-][0-9.]+/$'
-SF_version_tarball 'src'
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/default.upstream b/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index e0d01fb190c6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://www.monotone.ca/downloads.php
-
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_version
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f16c1b645cd..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/fpc/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Source/
-SF_version_dir
-version_link 'fpcbuild-[0-9.]+[.]tar[.]gz/download$'
-SF_redirect
-version '.*-([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.]gz' '\1'
-do_overwrite () { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/regina/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/interpreters/regina/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 481d9848f830..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/regina/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/regina-rexx/files/regina-rexx/
-SF_version_dir
-SF_version_tarball
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/2.0.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/2.0.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 74eb1a2ca83f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/2.0.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-url https://botan.randombit.net/
-version_link 'Botan-[0-9]+([.][0-9]+)*[.](tgz|tbz|tbz2|tar[.]bz2)$'
-ensure_version
-attribute_name botan2
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-  set_var_value baseVersion ${CURRENT_VERSION%.*}
-  set_var_value revision ${CURRENT_VERSION##*.}
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 43f6a3b268ee..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/botan/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-url http://botan.randombit.net/download.html
-version_link 'Botan-[0-9]+[.][0-9]*[02468]([.][0-9]+)?[.](tgz|tbz|tbz2|tar[.]bz2)$'
-ensure_version
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-  set_var_value baseVersion ${CURRENT_VERSION%.*}
-  set_var_value revision ${CURRENT_VERSION##*.}
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index c0c05efc466c..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/
-ensure_choice
-version '.*/([-0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-do_overwrite() { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mdds/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/mdds/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 96c5bc35d169..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mdds/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-url https://gitlab.com/mdds/mdds
-version_link 'mdds-.*[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]+$'
-version '.*-([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-
-do_overwrite(){
-  ensure_hash
-  ensure_version
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/osip/default.upstream b/pkgs/development/libraries/osip/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index ba0ed2a9b299..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/osip/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-url http://ftp.u-tx.net/gnu/osip/
-attribute_name libosip
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/games/blobby/default.upstream b/pkgs/games/blobby/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f2804e07946..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/blobby/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/blobby/files/Blobby%20Volley%202%20%28Linux%29/
-SF_version_dir
-version_link '[.]tar[.][^.]+/download$'
-SF_redirect
-do_overwrite(){
-  do_overwrite_just_version
-  set_var_value url $CURRENT_URL
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/games/sgt-puzzles/default.upstream b/pkgs/games/sgt-puzzles/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index b6d048b68ae9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/sgt-puzzles/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-minimize_overwrite
-url http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles.tar.gz
-redirect
-NEED_TO_CHOOSE_URL=
-version '.*[-_.]([0-9]{8}[.][^.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/atop/default.upstream b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/atop/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 46099d9c9595..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/atop/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url http://atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php
-version_link '[.]tar[.]'
-version '[^0-9]*[-.]([0-9]([-0-9.]*[0-9])?)[.].*' '\1'
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/sysdig/default.upstream b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/sysdig/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 485de5741d79..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/sysdig/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url https://github.com/draios/sysdig/releases
-ensure_choice
-version '.*/([0-9.]+)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-do_overwrite () {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value sha256 $CURRENT_HASH
-  set_var_value version $CURRENT_VERSION
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/mainline.upstream b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/mainline.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bb025499592..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/mainline.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://nginx.org/en/download.html
-version_link '.*-([0-9]+[.][0-9]+([.][0-9]+)*)[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]*$' 
-
-do_overwrite() {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/stable.upstream b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/stable.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index c20139017436..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/stable.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://nginx.org/en/download.html
-version_link '.*-([0-9]+[.][0-9]*[02468]([.][0-9]+)*)[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]*$' 
-
-do_overwrite() {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b8345986374..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/
-version_link '[.]tar[.]bz2$'
-
-do_overwrite () {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index d56fa42f1d1b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/smbnetfs/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/smbnetfs/files/smbnetfs/
-version_link '[-][0-9.]+[a-z]*/$'
-version_link '[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]+/download$'
-SF_redirect
-version '.*[-]([0-9.]+[a-z]*)[.]tar[.].*' '\1'
-do_overwrite () { do_overwrite_just_version; }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/cuneiform/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/graphics/cuneiform/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fb85a2a1e89..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/cuneiform/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-url https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/+download
-
-do_overwrite () {
-  ensure_hash
-  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
-  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
-  set_var_value ' url' "$CURRENT_URL"
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/ised/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/misc/ised/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 6539bf477e54..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/ised/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url http://ised.sourceforge.net/web_nav.html
-SF_version_tarball
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/ipmiutil/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/system/ipmiutil/default.upstream
deleted file mode 100644
index 45e3a936825a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/ipmiutil/default.upstream
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-url https://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmiutil/files/
-SF_version_tarball
-SF_redirect
-minimize_overwrite