diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index 8aecc2c..9c15fb2 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 version=4
-opts="filenamemangle=s/.+\/v?(\d\S+)\.tar\.gz/icons-$1\.tar\.gz/, \
- dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg//" \
-https://github.com/twbs/icons/tags .*/v?(\d\S+)\.tar\.gz
+opts="dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg//, uversionmangle=s/(\d)\-?((alpha|beta)\d*)$/$1~$2/" \
+https://github.com/twbs/icons/tags .*/v?(\d.*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@