diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5ec0fe0..8639ca9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   * d/control: update the VCS urls.
   * d/rules: remove java build parts, as there is no java code anymore.
   * d/poms: use upstream's pom.xml.
+  * d/control: update formatting, debhelper version and standards version.
 
  -- Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:32:56 -0500
 
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 67947e1..c921544 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,16 +3,17 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Clojure Maintainers <pkg-clojure-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: clojure (>= 1.8),
-               debhelper (>= 10),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
+               javahelper,
+               maven-repo-helper,
+               clojure,
                default-jdk,
-               javahelper (>= 0.43),
-               libtools-analyzer-jvm-clojure (>= 0.7.0),
-               maven-repo-helper (>= 1.7)
-Standards-Version: 4.0.0
+               libtools-analyzer-jvm-clojure
+Standards-Version: 4.5.0
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/clojure-team/core-async-clojure.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/clojure-team/core-async-clojure
 Homepage: https://github.com/clojure/core.async
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 
 Package: libcore-async-clojure
 Architecture: all