diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f25e71142..6467e1f95 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ linux-2.6 (3.2.1-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Stop changing 'build' and 'source' symlinks in linux-image maintainer
     scripts; these symlinks now belong to the linux-headers packages
   * Remove unused configuration variables from linux-image maintainer scripts
+  * Remove last vestige of /usr/doc transition from linux-image prerm script
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:19:55 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/prerm b/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/prerm
index cd1e50233..3c43b9ff5 100755
--- a/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/prerm
+++ b/debian/templates/temp.image.plain/prerm
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ my $answer='';
 my $running = '';
 my $WouldInvalidate = 0;
 
-if ($ARGV[0] && ($ARGV[0] =~ /remove/ || $ARGV[0] =~ /upgrade/)) {
-  if (-l "/usr/doc/linux-image-$version") {
-    unlink "/usr/doc/linux-image-$version";
-  }
-}
-
 # Ignore all invocations uxcept when called on to remove
 exit 0 unless ($ARGV[0] && $ARGV[0] =~ /remove/) ;