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How do people make tarballs?

This is not as stupid a question as it sounds. I know the 'tar'
command, and I know that for example:

   tar czvf parrot-0.2.5.tgz parrot-0.2.5/

will create a file 'parrot-0.2.5.tgz' which when untarred will
put its contents in a subdirectory called 'parrot-0.2.5'.

The way i do this is that first I create a directory parrot-0.2.5/
which contains evereything I want to include from the parrot/ directory
to go into the tarball. This is potentially error-prone, especially
as it is a routine (& therefore boring) administrative task. Then I 
execute the tar command above.

Is there an easier way?

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