diff --git a/distributions/debian/watch b/distributions/debian/watch
index 95b58e4b..39d4a1fe 100644
--- a/distributions/debian/watch
+++ b/distributions/debian/watch
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 version=4
 # GitHub hosted projects
-opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%@PACKAGE@-$1.tar.gz%" \
+opts=uversionmangle=s%_%.%g,filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?(r\d[\d_]*)\.tar\.gz%@PACKAGE@-$1.tar.gz% \
    https://github.com/corrados/jamulus/tags \
-   (?:.*?/)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
+   (?:.*?/)?r(\d[\d_]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate