aws: remove, recommend awscli / awscli2 (#176707)

Co-authored-by: superherointj <5861043+superherointj@users.noreply.github.com>

nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2211.section.xml

@@ -508,6 +508,14 @@
           been removed due to lack of upstream maintenance.
         </para>
       </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>aws</literal> package has been removed due to
+          being abandoned by the upstream. It is recommended to use
+          <literal>awscli</literal> or <literal>awscli2</literal>
+          instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>
           The <literal>meta.mainProgram</literal> attribute of packages

nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2211.section.md

@@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ Available as [services.patroni](options.html#opt-services.patroni.enable).
   `python3.pkgs.influxgraph` packages, have been removed due to lack of upstream
   maintenance.
 
+- The `aws` package has been removed due to being abandoned by the upstream. It is recommended to use `awscli` or `awscli2` instead.
+
 - The `meta.mainProgram` attribute of packages in `wineWowPackages` now defaults to `"wine64"`.
 
 - The `paperless` module now defaults `PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE` to your configured system timezone.

pkgs/tools/virtualization/aws/default.nix

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, perl, curl }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "aws";
-  version = "2019.06.18";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://raw.github.com/timkay/aws/ac68eb5191c52f069b9aa0c9a99808f8a4430833/aws";
-    sha256 = "02bym9wicqpdr7mdim13zw5ssh97xfswzab9q29rsbg7058ddbil";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ perl ];
-
-  dontUnpack = true;
-
-  installPhase =
-    ''
-      mkdir -p $out/bin
-      sed 's|\[curl|[${curl.bin}/bin/curl|g' $src > $out/bin/aws
-      chmod +x $out/bin/aws
-    '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://www.timkay.com/aws/";
-    description = "Command-line utility for working with Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, ELB, IAM and SDB";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
-  };
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   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 = throw "aws has been removed: abandoned by upstream. For the AWS CLI maintained by Amazon, see 'awscli' or 'awscli2'"; # Added 2022-09-21
   awless = throw "awless has been dropped due to the lack of maintenance from upstream since 2018"; # Added 2022-05-30
   aws-okta = throw "aws-okta is on indefinite hiatus. See https://github.com/segmentio/aws-okta/issues/278"; # Added 2022-04-05;
   axoloti = throw "axoloti has been removed: abandoned by upstream"; # Added 2022-05-13

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -2899,8 +2899,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   avro-cpp = callPackage ../development/libraries/avro-c++ { };
 
-  aws = callPackage ../tools/virtualization/aws { };
-
   aws_mturk_clt = callPackage ../tools/misc/aws-mturk-clt { };
 
   awsls = callPackage ../tools/admin/awsls { };