diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3f9a0c24..e8e34b2a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Section: gnome
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                dh-sequence-gnome,
                meson (>= 0.44.0),
                sassc
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index d735227c..8b88ea3b 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: gnome
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: @GNOME_TEAM@
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                dh-sequence-gnome,
                meson (>= 0.44.0),
                sassc