diff --git a/net-mgmt/py-nxapi-plumbing/Makefile b/net-mgmt/py-nxapi-plumbing/Makefile
index b9e97d667809..48924e269014 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/py-nxapi-plumbing/Makefile
+++ b/net-mgmt/py-nxapi-plumbing/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	nxapi-plumbing
 DISTVERSION=	0.5.2
 PORTREVISION=	5
 CATEGORIES=	net-mgmt python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:C/-/_/}-${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	kai@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Manage Cisco devices through NX-API using XML/JSON-RPC
 WWW=		https://github.com/ktbyers/nxapi-plumbing
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+DEPRECATED=	Upstream inactive since +8 years, code was integrated into py-napalm. Please use net-mgmt/py-napalm instead
+EXPIRATION_DATE=2026-07-31
+
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}future>=0:devel/py-future@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lxml>=0:devel/py-lxml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}six>=0:devel/py-six@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scp>=0:security/py-scp@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.7.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>