diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index e69760255d..950a107890 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 version=4
 opts="\
 uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha|b|a)\d*)$/$1~$2/,\
-filenamemangle=s/.*v(.*)\/.*/gitlab-$1.tar.bz2/,\
+filenamemangle=s/.*v(.*)\/.*/gitlab-$1.tar.gz/,\
 dversionmangle=s/(\d)[\+]?(debian|dfsg|ds|deb|gh)\d*(\~)*(rc)*(\d)*$/$1$3$4$5/ \
-" https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/tags .*/gitlab-foss-v(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.bz2 debian
+" https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/tags .*/gitlab-foss-v(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz debian
 
-opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,repack,compression=bz2,component=core-js" \
+opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=core-js" \
 https://registry.npmjs.org/core-js \
 https://registry.npmjs.org/core-js/-/core-js-(3.[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ ignore