diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index ec63514..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c570fd5..1c7dc7e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: httpd
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 9),
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
  dh-apache2,
  dh-autoreconf,
  apache2-dev (>= 2.4.53-1~),