diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/0.13.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/0.13.nix
index 0111a4b065c47..dd0eba508daa4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/0.13.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/0.13.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, patchelf }:
 
-# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
-# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
-# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as
-# files.
-
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "patchelf";
   version = "0.13.1";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 8acee49ae6ae7..796bc920e574c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   parity = openethereum; # Added 2020-08-01
   partition-manager = libsForQt5.partitionmanager; # Added 2024-01-08
   pash = throw "'pash' has been removed: abandoned by upstream. Use 'powershell' instead"; # Added 2023-09-16
+  patchelfStable = patchelf; # Added 2024-01-25
   pcsctools = pcsc-tools; # Added 2023-12-07
   pdf2xml = throw "'pdf2xml' was removed: abandoned for years."; # Added 2023-10-22
   peach = asouldocs; # Added 2022-08-28
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e0ca2d741d53a..7fe240c07b37f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19738,14 +19738,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   parse-cli-bin = callPackage ../development/tools/parse-cli-bin { };
 
-  patchelf = if with stdenv.buildPlatform; isAarch64 && isMusl then
-    patchelf_0_13
-  else
-    patchelfStable;
-  patchelf_0_13 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/patchelf/0.13.nix {
-    patchelf = patchelfStable;
-  };
-  patchelfStable = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/patchelf { };
+  patchelf = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/patchelf { };
+  patchelf_0_13 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/patchelf/0.13.nix { };
 
   patchelfUnstable = lowPrio (callPackage ../development/tools/misc/patchelf/unstable.nix { });