Another shameless plug: https://github.com/kakwa/amkecpak https://github.com/kakwa/amkecpak It doesn't exactly simplify the Debian packaging in my case as it

Another shameless plug: https://github.com/kakwa/amkecpak https://github.com/kakwa/amkecpak It doesn't exactly simplify the Debian packaging in my case as it leaves the packaging mostly exposed. But it provides a lot of far more convenient and easy to remember commands (make rpm, make deb, make deb_repo, make rpm_repo, etc) compared to the easy to forget options of rpmbuild/mock and dpkg-buildpackage/cowbuilder. It also glues everything together from upstream source recovery to building the final repository ready to be rsynced on a public server.