diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3bce16b7bfce60c27d5140dabe8f4ce8784451f9..5001ffd7117314489a63a7401297413ae5046b8b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 python-defaults (2.7.6-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Bump version to 2.7.6.
+  * dh_python2: no longer move files to /usr/share/pyshared, don't create
+    /usr/lib/pyshared symlinks for extensions.
   * Use UTF-8 encoding for the python policy in HTML format. Closes: #689931.
 
  -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Wed, 07 May 2014 14:40:27 +0200
diff --git a/dh_python2 b/dh_python2
index 1b88b29b379ad71ea2b187b990ad40c99dd6f588..be1562b96b67fe80d0586ba04363291002848ca3 100755
--- a/dh_python2
+++ b/dh_python2
@@ -123,11 +123,8 @@ def share(package, stats, options):
                 dc = dircmp(dir1, dir2)
                 share_2x(dir1, dir2, dc)
     elif len(pubvers) == 1:
-        # TODO: remove this once file conflicts will not be needed anymore
-        move_to_pyshared(sitedir(pubvers[0], package))
-
-    for version in stats['ext']:
-        create_ext_links(sitedir(version, package))
+        # don't install into pyshared anymore
+        pass
 
     if options.guess_versions and pubvers:
         for version in get_requested_versions(options.vrange):