diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4281b03e..eca7ae19 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.219) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop fdupes analysis: not widely used any more, can be done separately
+    if needed, and very noisy in build logs.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:00:33 +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..0703aa20 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