diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index ec635144..00000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index be509c53..0668c407 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: grml-live
 Section: grml
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10)
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
 Build-Depends-Indep: asciidoc,
                      docbook-xsl,
                      xsltproc