Is there any Checkinstall alternative since its too old?

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

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Checkinstall is up-to-date.

The correct link is with Recent news from Dec 30th, 2016 and it is shown on :

$ apt-cache show checkinstall | grep Homepage
Homepage: 

And git repository is also fresh:

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

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