diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 02a73c5..b249f38 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   * apply patch from Vagrant Cascadian that improves reproducibility of
     builds, closes: #976359
   * incorporate updated Portugese translation, closes: #962436
+  * update to latest debhelper compat and policy versions
 
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Apply multi-arch hints.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2c469f8..3b489e5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
 Uploaders: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12)
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
 Build-Depends-Indep: dblatex,
                      docbook-xml,
                      docbook-xsl,
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
                      w3m,
                      xsltproc,
                      zip
-Standards-Version: 4.5.0
+Standards-Version: 4.6.0
 Homepage: https://www.debian.org/doc/misc-manuals#history
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/project-history.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/project-history