I have just realized that ebuilds require python 2.6 and above. That is wrong. Yesterday released version 1.62 is advertised as the last one supporting 2.5. We don't probably many/any users on python 2.5 but who knows. Justin, while you are at it please copy the 1.61.ebuild under 1.62 filenanme. It works for me. Thank you.
It isn't going to be much use... profiles/base/use.mask: # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2013) # These outdated versions of Python are no longer updated or maintained # properly. Python 2.5 started to become a blocker for Python 3.3. # Python 3.1 has proved to become unfriendly to writing portable code. # PyPy is still experimental and we're in process of bringing 2.1. # The masked packages will be removed in 30 days. Afterwards, ebuild # and eclass support for those implementations will be removed. # Bug #480070. python_targets_python2_5
Jeroen is right, upstream might support py2.5 but Gentoo doesn't do anymore.
And sadly we also cannot add the py3 support as the deps aren't all available for py3.
