diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index 9dd1446b..943518e2 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 version=3
-options="uversionmangle=s/v//,filenamemangle=s/.*\/(.*)/scikits-image-$1\.tar\.gz/" \
- http://github.com/scikits-image/scikits.image/downloads .*tarball/v([\d\.a-z]+)
+http://githubredir.debian.net/github/scikits-image/scikits-image/ v(.+).tar.gz