If you have gotten this package from CVS and want to build a package
from it, it is advisable to update the changelog to show that a more
recent version is being built than the version that was current as of
the last changelog update.  The recommended way to do this is to take
the last release version (without the Debian revision number) and then
add +cvs.<date>-0 to the end.  For example, if the most recent release
was 1.8.0-2 and the date was April 7, 2002 (both of which are true as
of the moment of this writing), the version would be:

1.8.0+cvs.20020407-0

The easiest way to set up the changelog this way is to install the
devscripts package (apt-get install devscripts), and then from inside
the main unpacked source tree or the debian subdirectory, type:

dch -v 1.8.0+cvs.20020407-0

Make a note in the changelog that it's a personal build, and then
type:

fakeroot debian/rules binary

to build the package.

 -- Zed Pobre, Debian Maintainer, 2002.04.07