eix-0.30.4 is in the tree since more than 2 months and has no known regressions (bug 518800 is "can't fix" and is no regression). Please stabilize on all arches so that all earlier version can be removed: These earlier version contain known bugs and/or do not work well with current portage.
CCing arches
amd64 stable
Stable for HPPA.
x86 stable
arm stable
sparc stable
alpha stable
ppc stable
ppc64 stable
ia64 stable. Closing.