diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7d9fe64..b7c7839 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   * New upstream release.
   * Switch to the Clojure team.
   * Standards-Version: 4.5.0.
+  * Switch to debhelper-compat.
 
  -- Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>  Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:09:08 +0100
 
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 fbdcf4e..2b5433a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Clojure Maintainers <pkg-clojure-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 10),
+ debhelper-compat (= 10),
  javahelper (>= 0.32),
  maven-repo-helper (>= 1.7),
  clojure (>= 1.8),