I'm really disappointed that Gentoo took that route. Anyhow, I'll keep an eye out for this hitting Stretch and update this ticket when it does.
Thanks again. On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 02.01.2016 um 00:38 schrieb Michael Cordingley: > > I do have the PHP plug-in installed and can confirm that I am able to > > edit PHP-only files. I cannot do anything more advanced with it, like > > find the declaration of a method or class or find usages, which is an > > annoyance. > > Ok. I will package the htmlparser from validator.nu. Hopefully this will > fix this issue too. It might take a couple of weeks though until the new > package enters the archive since it also has to be reviewed by our > ftp-team first. > > > > This all works on Gentoo, which means that it's at least possible to > > build from source somehow. I don't know any of the distribution > > specifics for why it should work there and not here, but it may be > > possible to lift some ideas from over there, at least. > > I just had a look at > > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-java/netbeans-ide/netbeans-ide-8.1.ebuild > > Apparently they happily download the build-dependencies in binary format > from hg.netbeans.org. This is something I can't do in Debian. I only go > through all this pain because the Debian package is really built from > scratch, self-contained, does not download anything from the web and it > uses only build-dependencies in Debian main which all come with full > source code. > > > Thanks for looking into this, Markus. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > -- Michael Cordingley 740.707.7809
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