diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0b81423..3907b2e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Uploaders: Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>,
            Stefano Karapetsas <stefano@karapetsas.com>,
            Vangelis Mouhtsis <vangelis@gnugr.org>,
            Martin Wimpress <code@flexion.org>,
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (=12),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1.1),
                intltool,
                libglib2.0-dev,