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 4f3b38c..69c67bc 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,
+ debhelper-compat (= 12),
  dh-sequence-python3,
  python3,
  python3-sugar3 (>= 0.118-3~),