Snort version 2.9.9.0 has been released. https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/snort-2.9.9.0.tar.gz Requesting a version bump.
Thank you for the bump request. You can help the maintainer with further information: Does a simple bump [1] work on your system? [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_repository#Simple_version_bump_of_an_ebuild_in_the_local_overlay
Apparently this was fixed with complete disregard for related bug reports.