Mercurial 0.8 was released 29 Jan 06. See also bug #107888 which was a version bump to 0.7 AfC
I did the trivial manual bump (copying from mercurial-0.7 ebuild) and it built fine. AfC
Is there anything else needed for the bump ?
in portage now http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dev-util/mercurial/mercurial-0.8.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup