Build system of media-tv/xbmc-9999 checks Python versions in the following order: 2.6, 2.5, 2.4 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
reported upstream: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9584
Why was this marked "resolved upstream?" Upstream hasn't fixed the issue yet, and this affects the current version of XBMC in portage - xbmc-9.11-r4 which is ~amd64/~x86.
xbmc-9.11 is locked to an old version. python-2.7 is irrelevant. we dont really apply patches to xbmc 9999 ... when upstream fixes things, we'll get that automatically.