diff --git a/debian/freeipa.postinst.debhelper b/debian/freeipa.postinst.debhelper
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d89d3ef6..000000000
--- a/debian/freeipa.postinst.debhelper
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# Automatically added by dh_makeshlibs
-if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
-	ldconfig
-fi
-# End automatically added section
diff --git a/debian/freeipa.postrm.debhelper b/debian/freeipa.postrm.debhelper
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f4404727..000000000
--- a/debian/freeipa.postrm.debhelper
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# Automatically added by dh_makeshlibs
-if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
-	ldconfig
-fi
-# End automatically added section