Description: Use debian package version instead of git version
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 import sys
 import os
+import subprocess
 
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
@@ -57,16 +58,10 @@
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 
-sys.path.insert(0, '../')
-import versioneer
-versioneer.VCS = 'git'
-versioneer.versionfile_source = '../khmer/_version.py'
-versioneer.versionfile_build = '../khmer/_version.py'
-versioneer.tag_prefix = 'v'  # tags are like v1.2.0
-versioneer.parentdir_prefix = '..'
-release = versioneer.get_version()
-del versioneer
-sys.path.remove('../')
+release = subprocess.check_output(
+    ['sh', '-c', 'cd ..; dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Version'])
+release = release.decode('utf-8')
+
 
 # The short X.Y version.
 
