12.1 is the first maintenance release in the 12.x series
Let me note that 12.1 is supposed to resolve quite important regression introduced in 12.0: "XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux"
Anyone tried just copying the ebuild to start, or do we need any patch-wrangling?
Copying ebuild seems to work. It builds and runs, but I didn't test it fully.
Confirmed, copying the ebuild seems to be enough
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Version bump http://sources.gentoo.org/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-12.1.ebuild?rev=1.1