diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/gotests/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/gotests/default.nix
index faa2e60aca4..d0d5025b31a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/gotests/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/gotests/default.nix
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
-{ lib, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-buildGoPackage rec {
+buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "gotests";
-  version = "1.5.3";
-  rev = "v${version}";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/cweill/gotests";
-  excludedPackages = "testdata";
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+  version = "1.6.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    inherit rev;
     owner = "cweill";
     repo = "gotests";
-    sha256 = "1c0hly31ax0wk01zdx0l0yl40xybaizjfb3gjxia2z0mgx330dq9";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-6IzUpAsFUgF2FwiC17OfDn1M+8WYFQPpRyXbkpHIztw=";
   };
 
-  meta = {
+  vendorSha256 = "sha256-WMeHZN3s+8pIYEVaSLjI3Bz+rPTWHr1AkZ8lydjBwCw=";
+
+  # tests are broken in nix environment
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
     description = "Generate Go tests from your source code";
     homepage = "https://github.com/cweill/gotests";
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ vdemeester ];
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vdemeester ];
+    license = licenses.asl20;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/gotests/deps.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/gotests/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index df411303d94..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/gotests/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated by https://github.com/kamilchm/go2nix v1.3.0
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/tools";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/tools";
-      rev = "23463209683dad3f2b9cc7f7c2663e1847c59017";
-      sha256 = "1shzfl4zixhj78v4f6y04bcmfl705yr5q8hp72ndbbma0mh09g8f";
-    };
-  }
-]