diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile.scm b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
index 813c2f18fe..f17a9aaf59 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/guile.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@ (define-public guile-3.0
             (files '("lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache"
                      "share/guile/site/3.0")))))))
 
-(define-public guile-next guile-3.0)
+(define-public guile-next
+  (deprecated-package "guile-next" guile-3.0))
 
 (define-public guile-3.0/libgc-7
   ;; Using libgc-7 avoid crashes that can occur, particularly when loading