diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index eb3798e2..39de6fe4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.300) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/11-remove-extra-packages.chroot: revert
+    removal of python from the rootfs temporarily, since we've manually
+    re-added it to the seed in order to make walinuxagent work again on the
+    azure image.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:01:02 +0000
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.299) vivid; urgency=medium
 
   * Fix snappy motd to not reference 'development', which isn't always true.
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/11-remove-extra-packages.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/11-remove-extra-packages.chroot
index 38cacf9e..f9c1ffe0 100644
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/11-remove-extra-packages.chroot
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-core/hooks/11-remove-extra-packages.chroot
@@ -9,6 +9,3 @@ apt-get purge -y locales
 # system-image-cli in vivid does no longer depend on 
 # ubuntu-download-manager
 apt-get purge -y libicu52
-
-# no more py2, yay
-apt-get purge -y python python-minimal libpython-stdlib python2.* libpython2.*