diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 243263c33..1bdc8cded 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ grub2 (2.00-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   [ Jordi Mallach, Colin Watson ]
   * New upstream release.
 
+  [ Colin Watson ]
+  * Adjust debian/watch to point to xz-compressed tarballs.
+
  -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:51:35 +0200
 
 grub2 (1.99-22.1) unstable; urgency=low
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index ad00736eb..7f8dbff7f 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 version=3
-ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-([a-z0-9.~]+).tar.gz debian uupdate
+ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-([a-z0-9.~]+).tar.xz debian uupdate