Simple version bump of the latest ebuild currently in the tree works fine. However, the license has been changed to LGPL-2.1 and the ChangeLog file no longer exists. See the attached diff for the few changes needed to the ebuild.
Created attachment 164205 [details] pyxattr-0.2.1-to-0.4.0.diff Changes between the 0.2.1 and 0.4.0 ebuilds
In CVS. Thanks for reporting and the patch :-]