diff --git a/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
index 5bd53436a20..bd685845bc7 100644
--- a/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
+++ b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/patches/series
 dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/rules
 dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/shlibs.local
 dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/source/format
-dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/watch
 dev/tasks/requirements*.txt
 dev/tasks/conda-recipes/*
 docs/requirements.txt
diff --git a/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc b/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4931bfaa119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
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diff --git a/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/watch b/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/watch
index 5cb3f00915f..c306a89e970 100644
--- a/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/watch
+++ b/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/watch
@@ -1,2 +1,20 @@
-version=3
-https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/arrow/arrow-(.+)/apache-arrow-(.+).tar.gz
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+Version: 5
+Pgp-Mode: auto
+Source: https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow@SEMANTIC_VERSION@/
+Matching-Pattern: apache-arrow@SEMANTIC_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@