diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index ec635144f60048986bc560c5576355344005e6e7..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b25b20970795d939450b794160844634612d6ace..131acc9ed50e6627bc9f2448ad92605aa7d21c60 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Uploaders:
  Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org>,
  Andrew Ross <ubuntu@rossfamily.co.uk>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 9),
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
  default-jdk,
  javahelper (>= 0.40ubuntu1),
  libnb-org-openide-util-java (>= 8.1),