diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4281b03e..6e8c0126 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.219) utopic; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop fdupes analysis: not widely used any more, can be done separately
+    if needed, and very noisy in build logs.
+  * Make the output kernel/initrd world-readable in a couple more cases,
+    particularly relevant to ubuntu-defaults-image (LP: #1334616).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:31:12 +0100
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.218) utopic; urgency=medium
 
   * Install linux-signed-generic directly in live passes rather than relying
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 541576ff..3e0e3b1a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/trunk
 
 Package: livecd-rootfs
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal | python, procps, squashfs-tools (>= 1:3.3-1), grep-dctrl, fdupes, lsb-release, lzma, e2fsprogs, germinate (>= 1.25.1), apt-utils, gnupg, live-build (>= 3.0~a55-1), android-tools-fsutils [armhf], python3-software-properties
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal | python, procps, squashfs-tools (>= 1:3.3-1), grep-dctrl, lsb-release, lzma, e2fsprogs, germinate (>= 1.25.1), apt-utils, gnupg, live-build (>= 3.0~a55-1), android-tools-fsutils [armhf], python3-software-properties
 Suggests: partimage
 Breaks: ubuntu-defaults-builder (<< 0.32)
 Description: construction script for the livecd rootfs
diff --git a/live-build/auto/build b/live-build/auto/build
index 8169d7a9..197e3113 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/build
+++ b/live-build/auto/build
@@ -247,19 +247,6 @@ deb file:/var/lib/preinstalled-pool/ $LB_DISTRIBUTION $LB_PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS
 	(cd chroot && find usr/share/doc -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs du -s | sort -nr)
 	echo END docdirs
 
-	if which fdupes >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-		echo "===== Checking for duplicate files ====="
-		echo "first line: <total size for dupes> <different dupes> <all dupes>"
-		echo "data lines: <size for dupes> <number of dupes> <file size> <filename> [<filename> ...]"
-		echo BEGIN fdupes
-		(cd chroot \
-		   && fdupes --recurse --noempty --sameline --size --quiet usr \
-		   | awk '/bytes each/ {s=$1} /^usr/ { n+=1; n2+=NF-1; sum+=s*(NF-1); print s*(NF-1), NF-1, s, $0 } END {print sum, n, n2}' \
-		   | sort -nr
-		)
-		echo END fdupes
-	fi
-
 	lb binary "$@"
 	touch binary.success
 ) 2>&1 | tee binary.log
@@ -359,11 +346,13 @@ if [ "$NUMFLAVOURS" = 1 ] && [ "$LB_LINUX_FLAVOURS" != "none" ]; then
 	# only one kernel flavour
 	if [ -e "binary/$INITFS/vmlinuz" ]; then
 		ln "binary/$INITFS/vmlinuz" "$PREFIX.kernel"
+		chmod 644 "$PREFIX.kernel"
 	else
 		ln -sf "$PREFIX.kernel-$LB_LINUX_FLAVOURS" "$PREFIX.kernel"
 	fi
 	if [ -e "binary/$INITFS/initrd.lz" ]; then
 		ln "binary/$INITFS/initrd.lz" "$PREFIX.initrd"
+		chmod 644 "$PREFIX.initrd"
 	else
 		ln -sf "$PREFIX.initrd-$LB_LINUX_FLAVOURS" "$PREFIX.initrd"
 	fi