This needs to use new python eclasses (if this tool is still needed... because it seems HOMEPAGE is also dead) Thanks
commit ad3e4995c84af6432be00414f90e0653a70d8b9c Author: Rafael Martins <rafaelmartins@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Nov 6 23:13:50 2016 +0100 app-portage/distpatch: version bump. ported to distutils-r1