diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 0f4c3a7..b7b63de 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 # export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
-DEBVERSION:=$(shell head -n 1 debian/changelog \
-                    | sed -e 's/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*/\1/')
+DEBVERSION:=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -SVersion)
 
 ifneq ($(GIT_COMMIT),)
 export NGCP_VERSION := $(GIT_COMMIT)