diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index b4de394..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-11
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 48d679a..05c4bb1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Uploaders: Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>,
            John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
            Stefano Karapetsas <stefano@karapetsas.com>,
            Vangelis Mouhtsis <vangelis@gnugr.org>,
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (=12),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1.1),
                intltool,
                libcanberra-gtk3-dev,