diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d1716df..7a4b5e5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
   * Bump debhelper from deprecated 9 to 12.
+  * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
 
  -- Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>  Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:58:22 +0000
 
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 b90f896..6085935 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Uploaders: Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>,
 	   Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>,
 	   Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12~), libncurses5-dev | libncurses-dev, gettext, libtext-unidecode-perl, help2man, autotools-dev, libperl-dev, desktop-file-utils
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libncurses5-dev | libncurses-dev, gettext, libtext-unidecode-perl, help2man, autotools-dev, libperl-dev, desktop-file-utils
 Standards-Version: 4.4.0
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/debian-tex/texinfo.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/debian-tex/texinfo