When will a deactivated address become available again.

I had a email address that was inactive for a long time and has been deactivated. I'm not concerned with the actual inbox contents, but I do still want the email address. When I try to login, it says the account has been deactivated and suggests I create a new account. When I tried to "Create a new account" it said the email address is unavailable. I also sent a test email to the address to confirm it's not active and I did receive a mailer daemon response saying the address could not be found.

I discovered the account was deactivated around Thanksgiving, but I assume the email address was deactivated several months (maybe even a year) before that. I haven't used this address since Yahoo annoyingly started enforcing 2fa, which I believe was over 2 years ago.

How long until the email address is released so I can sign up again with the same address??