I have submitted most of the vpncwatch Gentoo patches plus some additional changes to the author of vpnwatch and he has committed these patches two days ago. The only patch I did not submit was the Makefile patch because I suspect it is Gentoo specific. He has released 1.8 with just these changes. The release can be found on https://github.com/dcantrell/vpncwatch
+*vpncwatch-1.8 (07 Oct 2011) + + 07 Oct 2011; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> vpncwatch-1.7.ebuild, + +vpncwatch-1.8.ebuild, +files/vpncwatch-1.8-Makefile.patch, metadata.xml: + Version Bump, #382843 +