diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index de118c781..a79976407 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  - Alejandro Mery: added activation of volume groups at init.d/system
  - Sebastian Czech: updated epiphany (1.0.5)
  - enabled open-jade and pilot-link for the desktop target
+ - fixed stage-9 horror by removing dstructive code from readline.conf
 
 *) 2003-11-07 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
diff --git a/package/base/readline/readline.conf b/package/base/readline/readline.conf
index d7e598a17..5e307d47a 100644
--- a/package/base/readline/readline.conf
+++ b/package/base/readline/readline.conf
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 
 
 readline_postmake() {
-	rm -fv $root/usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so*
 	eval $MAKE shared ; eval $MAKE install-shared
 	if [ "$ROCKCFG_PKG_BASH_INST_RLL" = 1 ] ; then
 		echo "readline libraries may be needed by bash, moving them ..."