diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fe49f55..0d2134a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Ruby Team <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Abhijith PA <abhijith@openmailbox.org>
 Build-Depends: bundler,
-               debhelper-compat (= 12),
+               debhelper-compat (= 13),
                gem2deb,
                rake,
                ruby-minitest,