diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index b4de39476..000000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-11
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 265f6bb2c..d77c4fa28 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Jongmin Kim <jmkim@pukyong.ac.kr>
 Uploaders: Russell Sim <russell.sim@gmail.com>,
  Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                python-minimal (>= 2.4.0), pkg-config,
                cmake, libz-dev, libmbedtls-dev,
                libssh2-1-dev, libhttp-parser-dev, libkrb5-dev