diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index 1d715faf22..102b94fb03 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ opts="\
 repacksuffix=+dfsg,\
 repack,compression=xz,\
 uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha|b|a)\d*)$/$1~$2/,\
-filenamemangle=s/.*v(.*)\/.*/gitlab-$1.tar.gz/,\
+filenamemangle=s/.*v(.*)\/.*/gitlab-$1.tar.bz2/,\
 dversionmangle=s/(\d)[\+]?(debian|dfsg|ds|deb|gh)\d*(\~)*(rc)*(\d)*$/$1$3$4$5/ \
 " https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tags .*/gitlab-ce-v(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.bz2