you can use the special package “checkinstall” for all packages which are not even in debian/ubuntu yet.
You can use “uupdate” (apt-get install devscripts) to build a package from source with existing debian sources:
Example for libdrm2:
apt-get build-dep libdrm2
apt-get source libdrm2
cd libdrm-2.3.1
uupdate ~/Downloads/libdrm-2.4.1.tar.gz
cd ../libdrm-2.4.1
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc