chore(datacatalog): add information about deprecation of Data Catalog (#13169)

Co-authored-by: Jacek Spalinski <[email protected]>

Author: jacspa96

datacatalog/README.md

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+**Data Catalog API deprecation**
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+Data Catalog is deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. For steps to transition your Data Catalog users, workloads, and content to Dataplex Catalog, see [Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog](https://cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/transition-to-dataplex-catalog).
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+All API code samples under this folder are subject to decommissioning and will be removed after January 30, 2026. See [code samples for Dataplex Catalog](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/tree/main/dataplex).