diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8954713..f096516 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Bump debhelper from old 9 to 12.
+  * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
 
  -- Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>  Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:42:50 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index 48082f7..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-12
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b57a3e7..28714a5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Section: perl
 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12~)
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12)
 Build-Depends-Indep: libcgi-pm-perl (>= 3.63),
                      libhttp-message-perl,
                      libplack-perl,