The current stable is ancient. http://pmd.sourceforge.net/running.html http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/wiki/TestingJavaPackages The only reverse dep for is Netbeans-5.5* which is not stable so we are safe on that part as the ~arch version is probably more tested against that than the stable one.
x86 stable
Stable on ppc. Closing since we're last.