diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index 48082f72f087ce7e6fa75b9c41d7387daecd447b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-12
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index da59ba1c53bb676d739bd8ec74130ebe283a5cc8..424ecf8686fbedd1a1b04da162d7e266cd2c8b99 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: ruby
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                gem2deb,
                libhiredis-dev (>= 0.14.0),
                netcat-openbsd