diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index f599e28..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-10
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 619cfff..a64580d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org>
 Build-Depends:
  bison,
- debhelper (>= 10),
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
  libasound2-dev,
  libglib2.0-dev,
  libgtk2.0-dev,