diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b1e1543..4e7286d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ lxqt-build-tools (0.6.0-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release.
   * Bump Standards-version to 4.3.0, no changes needed.
+  * Bump debhelper compat to 12, no changes needed.
 
  -- Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:57:11 -0600
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index b4de394..48082f7 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-11
+12
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b17a35b..4034538 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Uploaders: Alf Gaida <agaida@siduction.org>,
            ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen@debian.org>
 Section: devel
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12),
                cmake,
                libglib2.0-dev,
                pkg-config,