Is there any Checkinstall alternative since its too old?

Question

I wonder if there is a better and newer Checkinstall alternative for Ubuntu. Its latest version 1.6.2 released Dec 26th, 2009.

Answer 1

Checkinstall is up-to-date.

The correct link is http://checkinstall.izto.org/ with Recent news from Dec 30th, 2016 and it is shown on https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/checkinstall :

$ apt-cache show checkinstall | grep Homepage
Homepage: http://checkinstall.izto.org

And git repository is also fresh:

$ git clone http://checkinstall.izto.org/checkinstall.git
$ cd checkinstall/
$ git log | head -n3
commit d24a630501a9aba5d53de2dcb3d9aa66edd3fe06
Author: Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran <antispam>
Date:   Wed Apr 26 17:37:50 2017 -0500