diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 7ed6ff8..7f8f011 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5
+7
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1f3cd86..7822e82 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers <pkg-libvirt-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
-Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, libvirt-dev, libgtk-vnc-1.0-dev (>= 0.3.4), libxml2-dev, 
+Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7), autotools-dev, libvirt-dev, libgtk-vnc-1.0-dev (>= 0.3.4), libxml2-dev, 
  libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10), iceape-dev (>= 1.1.9-5), autotools-dev, quilt, automake, autoconf, libffi-dev, libtool,
  libglade2-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.2