Added EAPI="2" and RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" to the template.
Created attachment 191810 [details, diff] patch to newebuild.vim
% svn ci -m "Modify new ebuild template to have EAPI=2 and RDEPEND, bug 274949. Patch by Dror Levin" Sending plugin/newebuild.vim Transmitting file data . Committed revision 64.
released in gentoo-syntax-20090720.ebuild, thx for the patch - sorry for the wait.