diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index b4de394..f599e28 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-11
+10
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index baff2ad..e1ecc6e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Uploaders: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
 Section: perl
 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10~)
 Build-Depends-Indep: perl,
                      libhttp-date-perl,
                      libhttp-message-perl,