diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 665d2f4765c..f64c26e7ef6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   aucdtect = throw "aucdtect: Upstream no longer provides download urls"; # Added 2020-12-26
   avldrums-lv2 = x42-avldrums; # Added 2020-03-29
   avxsynth = throw "avxsynth was removed because it was broken"; # Added 2021-05-18
+  awesome-4-0 = awesome; # Added 2022-05-05
   aws-okta = throw "aws-okta is on indefinite hiatus. See https://github.com/segmentio/aws-okta/issues/278"; # Added 2022-04-05;
   azureus = throw "azureus is now known as vuze and the version in nixpkgs was really outdated"; # Added 2021-08-02
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ced4afa7e98..052ac4d551c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -25252,11 +25252,10 @@ with pkgs;
 
   avrdudess = callPackage ../applications/misc/avrdudess { };
 
-  awesome-4-0 = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/awesome {
+  awesome = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/awesome {
     cairo = cairo.override { xcbSupport = true; };
     inherit (texFunctions) fontsConf;
   };
-  awesome = awesome-4-0;
 
   awesomebump = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/graphics/awesomebump { };