Scribus version 1.5.1 has been released, which fixes several bugs of 1.5.0. See https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.5.1_Release for details.
There is also a new bugfix release in the stable branch 1.4.6: https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-4-6-released/
Sorry, my mistake :( I must have been half blind for not noticing that 1.4.6 is already in the tree. However it probably should be stabilized soon ;)
Are you willing to proxy maintain this? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers Thanks
scribus-1.5.0-fpic.patch was included in 1.5.1. i give it a spin in ::xmw and push it into ::gentoo afterwards.
Scribus 1.5.2 was also released in May: https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-5-2-released/
commit 1ab2ef6578a5f857c7f1426f2cabf9938d3eda5c Author: Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> Date: Wed Aug 3 10:14:50 2016 +0200 app-office/scribus: Version bump (bug 576018). Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28 app-office/scribus/Manifest app-office/scribus/scribus-1.5.1.ebuild