diff --git a/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py b/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py
index 636ba0da5f..8949969c58 100644
--- a/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py
+++ b/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py
@@ -170,14 +170,6 @@ class HashedFilesMixin(object):
             if url.startswith('/') and not url.startswith(settings.STATIC_URL):
                 return matched
 
-            # This is technically not useful and could be considered a bug:
-            # we're making changes to our user's code for no good reason.
-            # Removing it makes test_template_tag_denorm fail, though, and I'm
-            # working on another bug, so I'm going to leave it there for now.
-            # When someone complains that /foo/bar#a/../b gets changed to
-            # /foo/bar#b, just remove it, as well as test_template_tag_denorm.
-            url = posixpath.normpath(url)
-
             # Strip off the fragment so a path-like fragment won't interfere.
             url_path, fragment = urldefrag(url)
 
diff --git a/tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/cached/css/fragments.css b/tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/cached/css/fragments.css
index e6e7049465..533d7617aa 100644
--- a/tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/cached/css/fragments.css
+++ b/tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/cached/css/fragments.css
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 @font-face {
     src: url('fonts/font.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
          url('fonts/font.svg#webfontIyfZbseF') format('svg');
-         url('fonts/font.svg#../path/to/fonts/font.svg') format('svg');
+         url('fonts/font.svg#path/to/../../fonts/font.svg') format('svg');
          url('data:font/woff;charset=utf-8;base64,d09GRgABAAAAADJoAA0AAAAAR2QAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAA');
 }
 div {
diff --git a/tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/cached/denorm.css b/tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/cached/denorm.css
deleted file mode 100644
index d6567b00dd..0000000000
--- a/tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/cached/denorm.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-@import url("..//cached///styles.css");
-body {
-    background: #d3d6d8 url(img/relative.png );
-}
diff --git a/tests/staticfiles_tests/test_storage.py b/tests/staticfiles_tests/test_storage.py
index 9de5a28223..edb5339bcf 100644
--- a/tests/staticfiles_tests/test_storage.py
+++ b/tests/staticfiles_tests/test_storage.py
@@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ class TestHashedFiles(object):
 
     def test_path_with_querystring_and_fragment(self):
         relpath = self.hashed_file_path("cached/css/fragments.css")
-        self.assertEqual(relpath, "cached/css/fragments.ef92012a8c16.css")
+        self.assertEqual(relpath, "cached/css/fragments.59dc2b188043.css")
         with storage.staticfiles_storage.open(relpath) as relfile:
             content = relfile.read()
             self.assertIn(b'fonts/font.a4b0478549d0.eot?#iefix', content)
             self.assertIn(b'fonts/font.b8d603e42714.svg#webfontIyfZbseF', content)
-            self.assertIn(b'fonts/font.b8d603e42714.svg#../path/to/fonts/font.svg', content)
+            self.assertIn(b'fonts/font.b8d603e42714.svg#path/to/../../fonts/font.svg', content)
             self.assertIn(b'data:font/woff;charset=utf-8;base64,d09GRgABAAAAADJoAA0AAAAAR2QAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAA', content)
             self.assertIn(b'#default#VML', content)
 
@@ -116,16 +116,6 @@ class TestHashedFiles(object):
             self.assertNotIn(b"/static/styles_root.css", content)
             self.assertIn(b"/static/styles_root.401f2509a628.css", content)
 
-    def test_template_tag_denorm(self):
-        relpath = self.hashed_file_path("cached/denorm.css")
-        self.assertEqual(relpath, "cached/denorm.c5bd139ad821.css")
-        with storage.staticfiles_storage.open(relpath) as relfile:
-            content = relfile.read()
-            self.assertNotIn(b"..//cached///styles.css", content)
-            self.assertIn(b"../cached/styles.bb84a0240107.css", content)
-            self.assertNotIn(b"url(img/relative.png )", content)
-            self.assertIn(b'url("img/relative.acae32e4532b.png', content)
-
     def test_template_tag_relative(self):
         relpath = self.hashed_file_path("cached/relative.css")
         self.assertEqual(relpath, "cached/relative.b0375bd89156.css")