diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 404432d..04bd112 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
   * Use secure copyright file specification URI.
   * Bump debhelper from deprecated 9 to 12.
+  * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
 
  -- Utkarsh Gupta <guptautkarsh2102@gmail.com>  Tue, 13 Aug 2019 06:18:04 +0530
 
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 6ec7445..e223644 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: Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                gem2deb,
                rake,
                ruby-omniauth-oauth (>= 1.1),