diff --git a/textproc/libtextcat/Makefile b/textproc/libtextcat/Makefile
index 3f5b94fadcf3..ea6991095dd1 100644
--- a/textproc/libtextcat/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/libtextcat/Makefile
@@ -1,41 +1,44 @@
 PORTNAME=	libtextcat
 PORTVERSION=	2.2
 PORTREVISION=	6
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	http://software.wise-guys.nl/download/
 
 MAINTAINER=	thierry@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Language guessing by N-Gram-Based Text Categorization
 WWW=		https://software.wise-guys.nl/libtextcat/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+DEPRECATED=	It has been superseded by textproc/libexttextcat
+EXPIRATION_DATE=2026-07-31
+
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 USES=		libtool
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
 PORTDOCS=	README TODO
 
 post-install:
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/src/textcat.h ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/include/
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}/LM
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "Installing language models provided in Gertjan van Noord's TextCat package"
 	(cd ${WRKSRC}/langclass/LM &&		\
 	${FIND} . -name "*.lm" -exec ${INSTALL_DATA} {} "${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}/LM/{}" \;)
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/langclass/conf.txt "${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}"
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${PORTDOCS:S|^|${WRKSRC}/|} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 
 do-test:
 	(cd ${WRKSRC}/langclass/ &&		\
 	for t in `${LS} ShortTexts/*.txt` ; do	\
 	${ECHO_MSG} "Analyzing $$t..." ;	\
 	../src/testtextcat conf.txt < $$t ;	\
 	done)
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>