diff --git a/ci_scripts/deprecated.txt b/ci_scripts/deprecated.txt
index 9150faf..0bd86dd 100644
--- a/ci_scripts/deprecated.txt
+++ b/ci_scripts/deprecated.txt
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-# List of deprecated packages.
-# When we deprecated a package, we add it here, to check if upstream is still
-# building it
+# List of deprecated packages. Deprecated packages are those which are now built
+for riscv64 platforms by the upstream projects, so we don't need to maintain a
+build workflow for it ourselves. Previously-built wheels should remain in the
+RISE package registry.
 
 aiohttp
 blake3
@@ -36,5 +37,6 @@ tokenizers
 uv
 video_reader-rs
 watchfiles
+websockets
 wrapt
 xxhash
diff --git a/ci_scripts/packages.txt b/ci_scripts/packages.txt
index fecac92..42cdb6e 100644
--- a/ci_scripts/packages.txt
+++ b/ci_scripts/packages.txt
@@ -48,5 +48,4 @@ tlparse
 tornado
 ujson
 uvloop
-websockets
 z3-solver
diff --git a/docs/packages/websockets.yaml b/docs/packages/websockets.yaml
index 71c2e5e..4821c16 100644
--- a/docs/packages/websockets.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/websockets.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+deprecated:
 package-name: websockets
 source-code: https://github.com/python-websockets/websockets
 license: BSD-3-Clause