diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f1a6365..0e0222d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
   * Use secure copyright file specification URI.
   * Use secure URI in debian/watch.
+  * Bump debhelper from old 9 to 12.
 
  -- Utkarsh Gupta <guptautkarsh2102@gmail.com>  Tue, 13 Aug 2019 06:15:37 +0530
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index ec63514..48082f7 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9
+12
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ad702b9..674d80d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Nitesh A Jain <niteshjain92@gmail.com>,
  Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12~),
                gem2deb,
                ruby-minitest,
                ruby-mocha,