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 9488cf6..ff3256f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@debian.org>, Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>
 # groff, man-db and asciidoc are required for generating documentation
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
  autoconf,
  automake,
  cpio,