diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a419e9e..860f972 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
   * Update watch file format version to 4.
+  * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
 
  -- Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>  Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:04:53 -0000
 
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 988beca..bb7276e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Jakub Adam <jakub.adam@ktknet.cz>,
  tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), default-jdk, javahelper
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 11), default-jdk, javahelper
 Standards-Version: 4.4.0
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/libspi-java.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/libspi-java