diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3a78c20..d5044e1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ dvdisaster (0.79.5-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Team upload.
   * Bump Standards Version to 4.0.0.
   * Remove unnecessary calls to dpkg-parsechangelog from debian/rules.
+  * debian/watch: Avoid repacking upstream tarballs unnecessarily.
 
  -- Carlos Maddela <e7appew@gmail.com>  Sat, 05 Aug 2017 20:03:21 +1000
 
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index cbb062b..39ff875 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 version=3
-opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.gpg/, \
-      compression=xz, \
-      repack" \
+opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.gpg/" \
 http://dvdisaster.net/en/index.html \
      (?:.*?/)?dvdisaster-(.*)\.tar\.bz2 debian uupdate