NixOS · Nov 6, 2019 · Nov 6, 2019 · Nov 6, 2019 · Nov 7, 2019
diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/fonts/corefonts.nix b/nixos/modules/config/fonts/corefonts.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix b/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 [
   ./config/debug-info.nix
-  ./config/fonts/corefonts.nix
   ./config/fonts/fontconfig.nix
   ./config/fonts/fontconfig-penultimate.nix
-  ./config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix
   ./config/fonts/fontdir.nix
   ./config/fonts/fonts.nix
   ./config/fonts/ghostscript.nix

diff --git a/nixos/modules/rename.nix b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ with lib;
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "mysql" "rootPassword" ] "Use socket authentication or set the password outside of the nix store.")
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "zabbixServer" "dbPassword" ] "Use services.zabbixServer.database.passwordFile instead.")
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "systemd" "generator-packages" ] "Use systemd.packages instead.")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "enableCoreFonts" ] "Use fonts.fonts = [ pkgs.corefonts ]; instead.")
 
     # ZSH
     (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "programs" "zsh" "enableSyntaxHighlighting" ] [ "programs" "zsh" "syntaxHighlighting" "enable" ])
@@ -291,5 +292,14 @@ with lib;
        (opt: mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "prometheus" "${opt}" ] ''
          The prometheus exporters are now configured using `services.prometheus.exporters'.
          See the 18.03 release notes for more information.
+       '' ))
+
+    ++ (forEach [ "enable" "substitutions" "preset" ]
+       (opt: mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "${opt}" ] ''
+         The fonts.fontconfig.ultimate module and configuration is obsolete.
+         The repository has since been archived and activity has ceased.
+         https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/171.
+         No action should be needed for font configuration, as the fonts.fontconfig
+         module is already used by default.
        '' ));
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/fontconfig-ultimate/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/fontconfig-ultimate/default.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ mapAliases ({
   firefoxWrapper = firefox;           # 2015-09
   flameGraph = flamegraph; # added 2018-04-25
   font-awesome-ttf = font-awesome; # 2018-02-25
+  # 2019-10-31
+  fontconfig-ultimate = throw ''
+    fontconfig-ultimate has been removed. The repository has been archived upstream and activity has ceased for several years.
+    https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/171.
+  '';
   font-droid = throw "font-droid has been deprecated by noto-fonts"; # 2019-04-12
   foomatic_filters = foomatic-filters;  # 2016-08
   fuse_exfat = exfat;                   # 2015-09-11

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11029,8 +11029,6 @@ in
 
   fontconfig-penultimate = callPackage ../data/fonts/fontconfig-penultimate {};
 
-  fontconfig-ultimate = callPackage ../development/libraries/fontconfig-ultimate {};
-
   folly = callPackage ../development/libraries/folly { };
 
   folks = callPackage ../development/libraries/folks { };