diff --git a/tools/release/packaging/debian/watch b/tools/release/packaging/debian/watch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dc521f8365f69d8adb16192c6d348ac574796b5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/release/packaging/debian/watch
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+version=3
+http://static.openwalnut.org/download/releases.html OpenWalnut_(.+).tar.gz