diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 77b1550..a902408 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Uploaders: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
            Vangelis Mouhtsis <vangelis@gnugr.org>,
            Martin Wimpress <code@flexion.org>,
 Build-Depends: autoconf-archive,
-               debhelper-compat (=12),
+               debhelper-compat (= 13),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1.1),
                gobject-introspection,
                gtk-doc-tools,