diff --git a/changelog.d/5-internal/delete-shell_nix b/changelog.d/5-internal/delete-shell_nix
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+Delete `shell.nix`. It has been broken for quite some time. The supported way to get a development nix environment is to use direnv.
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
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-(import ./nix).pkgs.wireServer.devShell