diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2ed85cc..9f81acf 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 sugar-etoys-activity (116-11) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
+  * Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
 
  -- Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>  Wed, 22 Sep 2021 01:45:39 -0000
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b5403b0..d698eeb 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Sugar Team <pkg-sugar-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>,
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper-compat (= 12),
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
  dh-sequence-python3,
  python3,
  python3-sugar3 (>= 0.118-3~),