diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index b4de394..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-11
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9967b74..661a803 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Ana Custura <ana@netstat.org.uk>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), libncurses5-dev, libsystemd-dev, cmake, pkg-config, catch
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libncurses5-dev, libsystemd-dev, cmake, pkg-config, catch
 Standards-Version: 4.2.0
 Homepage: https://github.com/linuxenko/chkservice
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/chkservice.git