I renamed the ebuild and compilation was successful. If this is satisfactory to you, I can commit that easily enough :) The main reason that I care, is that this bump fixes bug 316287 which is quite nasty of a bug in ~arch. Thanks.
+*abiword-2.8.6 (15 Jun 2010) + + 15 Jun 2010; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> -abiword-2.8.4.ebuild, + +abiword-2.8.6.ebuild: + Version bump (bug #324135) with lots of bugfixes like prevent configure + --disable-collab-backend-{tcp,service} from checking for asio.hpp (bug + #316287; thanks to Juergen Rose, Thorsten Vollmer, Jan Psota and others). + Remove old and broken testing version. Ups, I forgot to add credit for you for notifying the bump, but thanks anyway :-)
No worries, thanks.