2.0.9 has been out for a couple of weeks now. Bumping the 2.0.4 ebuild works fine for me on amd64 stable arch, gcc 4.3.2 and python 2.5. Will test on 2.4 tomorrow (lowest req by simplejson) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Looks like 2.1.0 will be out any day now, might as well wait for that one..
+ 03 Apr 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> +simplejson-2.0.9.ebuild: + Bump to 2.0.9, fixes #264556