Hello,

I've made an initial attempt at compiling rstudio "the debian way" with
debuild. Luckily I could start from the Arch package instead of nothing.

In hindsight, this was probably too complicated of a project to be my first
debian package, because it requires cmake, (old) java, R and node.js in
addition to figuring out the various debian tools. The New Maintainer's
Guide didn't have much to say about any of those.

I finally got debuild to run all the way through, but there's lots of
warnings; some are easy (templates etc) but many of them I would have no
idea what to do. If someone could skim the warnings I would appreciate any
pointers, even just "here's what you should google for dh_dwz errors" would
be really helpful -  https://mentors.debian.net/package/rstudio/

I put some of my notes/questions into
https://github.com/nfultz/rstudio-debian/blob/main/README.md

Kind of a frustrating project, so I'm going to step away for a while, but
hopefully can move the ball forward in coming months. Also thanks much to
Dirk for pointing me to this thread.

Best,

Neal Fultz

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