Re: HelpViewer 0.3 : error while linking

[Yavor Doganov]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 11:27:27 +0300,
Patrick Cardona via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment 
wrote:
> If I get some package from deb source and I try to rebuild it as the
> Debian doc says (1) I am afraid this could make a dependency conflict
> with the apps already installed by hand.

Just use the .orig.tar.gz from the Debian source package and apply the
patches as you would normally do with a regular tarball/source tree.
No need to build the .deb; it wouldn't work anyway as you're using the
GNUstep runtime.

> Do You think the best way is : I could get the deb source, apply the
> patch and make them by hand ?

Yes, ignore all Debian docs -- they are irrelevant for your use case.