diff --git a/cmake/CPackDebianConfig.cmake b/cmake/CPackDebianConfig.cmake
index 84b80a6bc..13216dd2f 100644
--- a/cmake/CPackDebianConfig.cmake
+++ b/cmake/CPackDebianConfig.cmake
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ SET(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_DEPENDS     "libc6-dev, libbz2-1.0, libstxxl1, libxml2,
 
 file(GLOB_RECURSE ProfileGlob ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/profiles/*)
 install(FILES ${ProfileGlob} DESTINATION "share/doc/${LOWER_PROJECT_NAME}/profiles")
-CONFIGURE_FILE (${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/postinst.in postinst)
-set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_CONTROL_EXTRA "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/postinst;${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/copyright;")
+set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_CONTROL_EXTRA "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/copyright;")
 
 MESSAGE(STATUS "Debian Package: ${CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_NAME} (${CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_VERSION}) [${CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME}.deb]")
diff --git a/cmake/postinst.in b/cmake/postinst.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 92f2fde4f..000000000
--- a/cmake/postinst.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#/usr/bin/env bash
-ln -s /usr/share/doc/@CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME@/profiles/car.lua @CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@/profile.lua