diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index f599e28b8ab0d8c9c57a486c89c4a5132dcbd3b2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-10
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b7c68572d504cea7963c93a9ae1f6b3132487b18..9db759d3adfe802b4096df9fff8a80832e7a84f0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian backupninja maintainers <pkg-backupninja@lists.riseup.net>
 Uploaders: Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>,
  Jerome Charaoui <jerome@riseup.net>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 10)
+ debhelper-compat (= 13)
 Build-Conflicts: autoconf2.13
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1
 Homepage: https://0xacab.org/liberate/backupninja