diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 08cb9d0b..224f4027 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ skimage (0.11.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * Fresh upstream release
     - includes slicing-error.patch freeimage-fix.patch
+  * Updated debian/watch to avoid deprecated redirector
 
  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:32:02 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index 294de1c5..200b9c52 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 version=3
-http://githubredir.debian.net/github/scikit-image/scikit-image/ v(.+).tar.gz
+https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/tags .*/archive/v(\d[\d\.]+).tar.gz