diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ccb14b0..1526e9c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: sound
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org>
Uploaders: Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 11),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
dh-exec,
docbook-to-man,
libasound2-dev,
@@ -22,4 +22,3 @@ Description: Virtual MIDI Keyboard
This program allows you to use the Linux AWE32 driver, OSS MIDI sequencer,
or ALSA MIDI sequencer and provides "virtual" keyboard (the musical type),
which can be "played" using the keyboard or mouse under X11.
-
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index fdbcd87..e6a6302 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ makefile.patch
manpage.patch
makefile-fix-cflags.patch
desktop-fix-name.patch
-2003-README_file.patch
\ No newline at end of file
+2003-README_file.patch
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 2ce78d8..b21a880 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
#!/usr/bin/make -f
export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
-export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
%:
dh $@
