diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 48e5e8269..df2693a16 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ systemd (223-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * debian/extra/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev: Drop some redundant code.
   * Fix networkd-wait-online -i to properly wait for the given interfaces
     only.
+  * Drop debian/extra/base-installer.d/05udev: We use net.ifnames by default
+    now, thus we don't need to copy 70-persistent-*.rules any more.
 
   [ Julian Wollrath ]
   * Copy all .link interface naming definitions to initramfs. (Closes: #793374)
diff --git a/debian/extra/base-installer.d/05udev b/debian/extra/base-installer.d/05udev
deleted file mode 100755
index 8a8d299eb..000000000
--- a/debian/extra/base-installer.d/05udev
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-
-RULESDIR=etc/udev/rules.d
-
-mkdir -p /target/$RULESDIR
-cp /$RULESDIR/70-persistent-*.rules /target/$RULESDIR 2>/dev/null || true
-
diff --git a/debian/udev-udeb.install b/debian/udev-udeb.install
index c440548ce..ed9733236 100644
--- a/debian/udev-udeb.install
+++ b/debian/udev-udeb.install
@@ -18,4 +18,3 @@ lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
 ../../extra/rules/73-idrac.rules lib/udev/rules.d/
 ../../extra/udev-helpers/*.functions lib/udev/
 ../../extra/start-udev lib/debian-installer/
-../../extra/base-installer.d usr/lib/