diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index e3f1c25fc0..3e0b39b70b 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ version=4
 opts="uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha|b|a)\d*)$/$1~$2/,\
 repack,compression=xz,oversionmangle=s{\Z}{+ds1},\
 dversionmangle=s/(\d)[\+]?(debian|dfsg|ds|deb|gh)\d*(\~)*(rc)*(\d)*$/$1$3$4$5/ \
-" https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/tags .*/gitlab-foss-v(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz
+" https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/tags?sort=updated_desc .*/gitlab-foss-v(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz
 
 opts="pgpmode=none,component=elasticsearch-rails,\
 " https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-rails/releases \