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 63220d9..1abebcb 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>,
  Saif Abdul Cassim <saif.15@cse.mrt.ac.lk>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 12),
+ debhelper-compat (= 12),
  gradle-debian-helper,
  default-jdk
 Build-Depends-Indep: