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dpkg versioning from Git via Jenkins

I'm in the process of setting up continuous integration. I have a git project that I can successfully build into a .deb via Jenkins, from the "master" branch. How do I sanely change the version number of each build so that it bumps the Debian changelog (else the deb build fails), the version numb