diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdftk/legacy.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdftk/legacy.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 18997887037..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdftk/legacy.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-{ fetchurl, lib, stdenv, gcj, unzip }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "pdftk";
-  version = "2.02";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-${version}-src.zip";
-    sha256 = "1hdq6zm2dx2f9h7bjrp6a1hfa1ywgkwydp14i2sszjiszljnm3qi";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ gcj unzip ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" "format" ];
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    cd pdftk
-    sed -e 's@/usr/bin/@@g' -i Makefile.*
-    NIX_ENFORCE_PURITY= \
-      make \
-      LIBGCJ="${gcj.cc}/share/java/libgcj-${gcj.cc.version}.jar" \
-      GCJ=gcj GCJH=gcjh GJAR=gjar \
-      -iC ../java all
-  '';
-
-  # Makefile.Debian has almost fitting defaults
-  makeFlags = [ "-f" "Makefile.Debian" "VERSUFF=" ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin $out/share/man/man1
-    cp pdftk $out/bin
-    cp ../pdftk.1 $out/share/man/man1
-  '';
-
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents";
-    homepage = "https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin ];
-    platforms = with lib.platforms; linux;
-    broken = true; # Broken on Hydra since 2020-08-24
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f48b2195a81..f8d2ce064a7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -28856,7 +28856,6 @@ with pkgs;
   pdftk = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/pdftk {
     jre = jre8; # TODO: remove override https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/89731
   };
-  pdftk-legacy = lowPrio (callPackage ../tools/typesetting/pdftk/legacy.nix { });
   pdfgrep  = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/pdfgrep { };
 
   pdfpc = callPackage ../applications/misc/pdfpc {