Please, bump mendeleydesktop to v1.8.2 I can confirm that renaming the existing 1.8 ebuild to 1.8.2 and downloading the new tarball works without any issues. Tested on ~amd64 and ~x86. Reproducible: Always
Version 1.8.3 has been released by upstream.
I've tested that renaming the existing ebuild to mendeleydesktop-1.8.3.ebuild and downloading the updated tarball works on ~amd64. It would be nice to see this made official. The desktop client pops up a dialog on every startup asking to be upgraded to 1.8.3.
Victor, David, thank you for the feedback. I just updated the ebuilds in the tree.