diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
deleted file mode 100644
index b4de3947..00000000
--- a/debian/compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-11
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f8f03678..172220fb 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ 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>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11.1.3),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
+               dh-sequence-gnome,
                gnome-pkg-tools,
                meson (>= 0.44.0),
                sassc
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 6b08ce30..37bfc8bd 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ Section: gnome
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: @GNOME_TEAM@
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11.1.3),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
+               dh-sequence-gnome,
                gnome-pkg-tools,
                meson (>= 0.44.0),
                sassc
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 967ccc3f..a707228c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --with gnome
+	dh $@
 
 override_dh_missing:
 	dh_missing --fail-missing