Debian Package a Day's Journal

checkinstall - installation tracker

CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities.

Suggested by Malte S.:

I think it's really useful if you've got a tarball archive with software that you have to compile with the usual:
./configure make make install

Makes removal and reinstalling really easy!

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