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/
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