diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index f599e28b8a..0000000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-10
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9ec61550c0..3a4629596f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Uploaders: Cédric Boutillier <boutil@debian.org>,
  Balasankar C <balasankarc@autistici.org>,
  Sruthi Chandran <srud@debian.org>,
  Utkarsh Gupta <utkarsh@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                gem2deb,
                dh-golang,
                golang-any (>= 2:1.17~),