This was discovered during work on the XD2GEN2 project. While Ximian has made no changes to this package, they do ship with the latest version (1.1.9) which is not in the portage tree yet. As far as I can tell, the ebuild doesn't require any modifications beyond renaming it to reflect the new version.
nobody uses this stuff
again .. this is only used by libgail-gnome and at-poke. anyway, version in portage is bumped now