As a packager, I often wonders if developers should package their software themselves. I'm not sure they should produce more than a decent tarball, with clear INSTALL instructions and licensing information. Setting up a clean package building environment (mock for RPM or pbuilder for DEB) is still a hassle.

For what it's worth, I try to maintain RPM packages for graphite for RHEL (and derivatives) over at http://pakk.96b.it/