diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index ec63514..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e6e410a..6890577 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Uploaders: Florian Schlichting <fschlich@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Section: perl
Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl
Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper,
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
libtest-pod-coverage-perl,
libtest-pod-perl,
perl-xs-dev,