diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index def09955..173da6c3 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  bsdextrautils <!nocheck> | bsdmainutils (<< 12) <!nocheck>,
  ca-certificates,
  cpio,
- debhelper-compat (= 12),
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
  dh-exec (>= 0.23~),
  docbook-xml <!nodoc>,
  docbook-xsl <!nodoc>,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 4c5d26cf..2339dea1 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@ override_dh_install:
 	:
 	dh_install
 
-override_dh_missing:
-	dh_missing --fail-missing
-
 override_dh_makeshlibs:
 	# this is an LD_PRELOAD, not a real shared library
 	dh_makeshlibs -Xinstalled-tests/ostree/libreaddir-rand.so