diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c8ec214f..cc90978e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ libfprint (1:1.90.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Drop d/patches/kFreeBSD_FTBFS_add_ETIME_definition.patch and
       d/patches/use-non-versionned-libusbh-path.patch, not needed anymore
     - debian/patches/udev-rules-creation-add-Debian-specifics.patch: refreshed
+  * Bump debhelper compatibility version to 12
 
- -- Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:26:09 +0100
+ -- Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:39:25 +0100
 
 libfprint (1:1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index f599e28b..00000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-10
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 08800500..1a6c3ee6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Section: libs
 Maintainer: FingerForce Team <fingerforce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Ulises Vitulli <dererk@debian.org>, Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10.3),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                gtk-doc-tools,
                libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.50),
                libgusb-dev (>= 0.3.0),