diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e63da92..9ac33b1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ qterminal (0.15.0-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Update upstream signing key.
     - Update LXQt build dependencies.
   * Update Standards-version to 4.5.0, no changes needed.
+  * Migrate to debhelper-compat.
 
  -- Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 01 May 2020 00:28:19 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index 48082f7..0000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-12
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 84e65ac..db5d542 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Uploaders: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: LXQt Packaging Team <pkg-lxqt-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Section: x11
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                libkf5windowsystem-dev,
                libqt5svg5-dev,
                libqt5x11extras5-dev,