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 c5b64d4..fd7e201 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Arnaud Rebillout <arnaud.rebillout@collabora.com>,
            Tim Potter <tpot@hpe.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                dh-golang (>= 1.31),
                golang-any,
                golang-gopkg-yaml.v2-dev