diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index b4de3947..00000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-11
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index be20dcc9..8e60bf1d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: mes
 Section: devel
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>=11),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (=12),
  guile-2.2,
  guile-2.2-dev,
  mescc-tools,