media-gfx/splashutils depends on virtual/jpeg[static-libs], while virtual/jpeg-62 had this flag removed so splashutils fail to satisfy deps as this is newest version of package. Probably it should depend on virtual/jpeg-0-r2[static-libs]
virtual/jpeg[static-libs] matches only for those versions which explicitly have this USE-flag enabled. If USE-flag is missing in package versions, it does not matched at all in dependency calculation. However, splashutils is not a binary program, while SLOT="62" of virtual/jpeg is for binary-only application, so, yes, explicit SLOT definition in dependency is reasonable, but current state of tree is not broken, so, lowering severity
+ 14 Oct 2013; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> + splashutils-1.5.4.4-r1.ebuild, splashutils-1.5.4.4-r2.ebuild, + splashutils-1.5.4.4-r3.ebuild: + Replace virtual/jpeg with virtual/jpeg:0 in the deps, bug #480530