diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 7f8f011..45a4fb7 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+8
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 98a47bd..4c3b8c3 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: utils
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Lzip Maintainers <lzip@lists.debian-maintainers.org>
 Uploaders: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>,
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8)
 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
 Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=lzip/pdlzip.git