a simple rename of the shc-3.7 works fine. tested to work on x86
as far as i remember "maintainer-needed" is for ebuilds nobody want's to take maintainership so far. to prevent removal from portage i'm willing to maintain dev-util/shc if that is possible at all.
Thanks, bumped to 3.8.3 in cvs. Relax, stuff only gets removed from Portage when it's really obsolete :-). http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/maintainer.txt