[closeparen]

With respect, I think this is a harmful attitude to take. People end up writing huge masses of Puppet/Chef/Ansible, or resorting to heavyweight technologies like Docker, just to place some files on a server. This problem is solved quite well by dpkg since forever, and it's a disservice to the community that this fact is obscured by so much cruft that only distro maintainers really need to know.

[dirtydroog]

Seconded, I tried to package up a publicly available header-only tar.gz into a debian package for our private repo and found it impossible to do. I gave up.

[GoblinSlayer]

I just stole the process from another project that uses binary packaging.