To be fair, the package must be provided by your distribution, otherwise it's just another random download, only in a different format.

Even if you are adding a third-party package repository, you just change the downloader. Although you usually get signature checking with that step for free.

And therein lies the issue: It's not the job of the software developers to provide packages for your distribution, but the job of your distribution maintainers.

So, if your distribution will probably not backport $newver of some tool to your release, you are only left with installing it via different means.

If you find yourself always installing software like this because your package repositories don't contain what you want, it may be a good idea to just check out different distros.