diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 45a4fb7..f599e28 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8
+10
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 66fb071..3457b65 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>,
  gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10)
 Build-Depends-Indep: ant, default-jdk, libjgraph-java
 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Homepage: http://microba.sourceforge.net/