PINE has now been updated to version 4.53, and the old SRC_URI for 4.52 no longer exists on their webserver. It looks like the ebuild can simply be copied across if all the references to "pine4.52" in the SRC_URI are changed to "pine4.53" (or, better, "${PN}${PV}").
Uh oh, why isn't anything ever simple? :-) Copying the ebuild doesn't work, since the patches referred to in SRC_URI have the same name as the patches for the previous version, so the ebuild will pick up the OLD (4.52) patches from the Gentoo mirrors (and maybe also /usr/portage/distfiles). Is there a way round this?
pine-4.53 has been released into portage marked unstable. Please mark this bug verified if you have no further problems or reopen if there are issues with this new ebuild. Thanks.
Two issues: 1) No digest file! (At least, not on my mirror...) 2) Hmm, you've dropped the extra patches, presumably because of the issue I mentioned in comment 1. What functionality would I lose by installing without these patches?
1) The digest file is there... just rsync again and it should be there. :) 2) The patches are pre-applied on this package. Happy pine-ing! haha
The digest file issue was my fault: I'd created my own temporary pine-4.53 ebuild - I removed this, but it had still been cached... Thankfully, everything's now working :-) Thanks a lot for your help.
