jython-2.5.1-r2.ebuild:IUSE="+readline +ssl +threads +xml" jython-2.5.2.ebuild:IUSE="readline" These useflags are needed to make the current python.eclass happy, by removing them many things won't build anymore. Please restore :)
X berkdb gdbm ncurses sqlite tk are all used as well with PYTHON_USE_WITH so this sort of breakage is rather widespread. ssl threads xml aren't special and so I agreed with Patrick in #gentoo-python that it would be preferable to actually fix those packages instead of reverting the removal. Also note that pypy doesn't have a threads useflag either. The easy fix is either use EAPI 4 and PYTHON_USE_WITH="ssl(+) xml(+) whatever" or adding RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="2.5-jython". The long term fix should happen in python.eclass.
(In reply to comment #1) > X berkdb gdbm ncurses sqlite tk are all used as well with PYTHON_USE_WITH so > this sort of breakage is rather widespread. ssl threads xml aren't special They are special, because Jython has no support for Berkeley DB, GDBM, ncurses, SQLite and Tk, but Jython has (unconditional) support for SSL, threads and XML.
This version will be removed as part of bug 552452. Closing this bug.
