diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f198a4a9..f07c5e12 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ fail2ban (0.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * [1efe1bc] Fresh upstream release (Closes: #648324)
   * Boosted policy compliance to 3.9.2 -- no changes
+  * Adjusted debian/watch to fetch tarballs from github
 
  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:27:18 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index 1afa23ea..d64db318 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # Run the "uscan" command to check for upstream updates and more.
 # Site		Directory		Pattern			Version	Script
 version=3
-
-http://sf.net/fail2ban/ fail2ban-(.*)\.tar\.bz2 debian git-import-orig
+opts="filenamemangle=s/.*\/(.*).tar.gz/fail2ban_$1\.orig.tar.gz/" \
+ http://githubredir.debian.net/github/fail2ban/fail2ban /([0-9].*).tar.gz