diff --git a/converters/ruby-lv/Makefile b/converters/ruby-lv/Makefile
index 42b07e45acd8..65f3a8638a6d 100644
--- a/converters/ruby-lv/Makefile
+++ b/converters/ruby-lv/Makefile
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ COMMENT=	A Ruby library to use LV's encoding conversion engine
 
 EXTRACT_DEPENDS=	${NONEXISTENT}:${PORTSDIR}/${LV_PORT}:configure
 
+DEPRECATED=	upstream no longer has this
+EXPIRATION_DATE=	2012-03-14
+BROKEN=	has not patched in quite some time
+
 LV_PORT=	misc/lv
 LV_WRKSRC_CMD=	cd ${PORTSDIR}/${LV_PORT} && ${MAKE} -V WRKSRC