diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index f599e28..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-10
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a371253..dfdffcc 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Uploaders: FRRouting-dev <dev@lists.frrouting.org>,
            Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>,
 Build-Depends: bison,
                chrpath,
-               debhelper (>= 10~),
+               debhelper-compat (= 13),
                flex,
                gawk,
                install-info,