This has no maintainer, upstream looks dead for more than five years and, hence, I don't think it will stop relying on dead libs like old vte:0 and pygtk ever. Maybe we should treeclean it Thanks
commit 0f939bc0cc5baf7ff363ba98101169fa16b545b0 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: Mon Aug 14 09:18:30 2017 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: Mon Aug 14 09:28:15 2017 dev-util/a8: Remove last-rited pkg, #622008 dev-util/a8/Manifest | 1 - dev-util/a8/a8-1.0.ebuild | 48 -------------------------------- dev-util/a8/files/a8-0.11-argparse.patch | 13 --------- dev-util/a8/files/a8-1.0-argparse.patch | 13 --------- dev-util/a8/metadata.xml | 9 ------ profiles/package.mask | 5 ---- 6 files changed, 89 deletions(-)