QMAKE_EXTRA_COMPILERS output is not deployed to remote devices when added to INSTALLS

Creating a QMAKE_EXTRA_COMPILERS and writing the output to the targets .files variable should let qt-creator deploy the output to a remote linux device. Using QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS and INSTALLS works as expected. This is a small example, which demonstrates the issue.

TEMPLATE = aux
 
DESTDIR = $$shadowed($${PWD})
 
txt_compiler.output = $$DESTDIR/${QMAKE_FILE_BASE}.txt
txt_compiler.commands = echo test > ${QMAKE_FILE_OUT}
txt_compiler.depends = ${QMAKE_FILE_IN}
txt_compiler.variable_out = TXT.files
txt_compiler.input = TXT
txt_compiler.CONFIG *= no_link target_predeps
QMAKE_EXTRA_COMPILERS *= txt_compiler
 
TXT *= test1.in \
       test2.in
 
TXT.path = /test/
TXT.CONFIG *= no_check_exist
INSTALLS *= TXT

In this example test1.txt and test2.txt should be deployed by qt-creator, but it is not. On the other hand, running qmake, make and make installs, those files are installed correctly.