diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 984a2d6..59261f6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
     - invoke the dh sequencer using the kf5 addon
     - call the right debhelper command instead of $(overridden_command)
     - manually force the generation of the substvars for the kde-l10n breaks
+  * Bump the debhelper compatibility to 13:
+    - switch the debhelper build dependency to debhelper-compat 13
+    - remove debian/compat
 
  -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>  Mon, 03 Aug 2020 08:35:53 +0200
 
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 be9309f..f1d6308 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
            Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@debian.org>,
            Maximiliano Curia <maxy@debian.org>,
 Build-Depends: cmake (>= 3.5~),
-               debhelper (>= 11),
+               debhelper-compat (= 13),
                extra-cmake-modules (>= 5.30.0~),
                gettext,
                libgl1-mesa-dev,