debian/ubuntu way to build ?

[andrew.taylor]

on ubuntu, I did apt-get install -y monit, and I get monit 4.8.1
one place it looks for monitrc is /etc/monit/monitrc

I wanted monit 4.9, so I download, tar -zxvf, ./configure, make, sudo 
make install
it looks for monitrc in /etc/monitrc

Is there something special to get it build the "debian way" ?

-- Thanks, Andrew