A new version is available upstream. There's only one documented change: Version 1.1.9 (November 30, 2016). Removed the SuiteSparse source code from the distribution. Since our 1.1.8 ebuild is doing that anyway, python_prepare_all(){ epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-setup.patch rm -r src/C/SuiteSparse*/ || die the new version should be a little cleaner.
Thanks! commit a8c9a107955a914b2a98971c22bf9eb727ef4842 Author: Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org> Date: Sat Mar 4 00:05:11 2017 +0000 dev-python/cvxopt: version bump Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.4, Repoman-2.3.2