Stellarium-0.7.0 was released on September 8, 2005. It includes many new features, and is well worth an upgrade. There is no need to modify the existing ebuild for 0.6.2, I just copied the existing ebuild to stellarium-0.7.0.ebuild and it worked fine (amd64). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
The reason it wasn't a no-brainer version bump is that version 0.7.0 has broken nls support. To work around the problem, I've forced nls support on since this version *does* have a lot of nice, new features. A patch for the code to allow for proper nls support would be appreciated. If anyone is motivated in this regard, please open a new bug with a patch. At any rate, version 0.7.0 is in CVS. Thanks for the bug report.