diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 7f8f011..ec63514 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 38c83de..8518b37 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Nitesh A Jain <niteshjain92@gmail.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), gem2deb (>= 0.6.0~), ruby-omniauth-oauth2 (>= 1.2~), ruby-mocha, ruby-minitest
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), gem2deb (>= 0.6.0~), ruby-omniauth-oauth2 (>= 1.2~), ruby-mocha, ruby-minitest
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-omniauth-facebook.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb?p=pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-omniauth-facebook.git;a=summary