diff --git a/release/doc/share/mk/doc.relnotes.mk b/release/doc/share/mk/doc.relnotes.mk
index 27fb71c4346..f242247a991 100644
--- a/release/doc/share/mk/doc.relnotes.mk
+++ b/release/doc/share/mk/doc.relnotes.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ DOC_PREFIX?= ${RELN_ROOT}/../../../doc
 
 # Find the RELNOTESng document catalog
 EXTRA_CATALOGS+= ${RELN_ROOT}/share/sgml/catalog
-EXTRA_CATALOGS+= ${RELN_ROOT}/${LANGCODE}/share/sgml/catalog
 
 # Use the appropriate architecture-dependent RELNOTESng stylesheet
 DSLHTML?=	${RELN_ROOT}/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/release.dsl