The dev-util/debugedit package is a fork which has not been updated for a few years. If available, we can prefer to use /usr/libexec/rpm/debugedit installed by app-arch/rpm.
Patch posted for review: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/7f92055f2a05911b5e51e4e31dd28642 https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/221
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=234ad726ddc5d62eb0d956023de338dc488e2ea1 commit 234ad726ddc5d62eb0d956023de338dc488e2ea1 Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-10-16 08:08:19 +0000 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-10-16 17:15:20 +0000 prepstrip: use debugedit from rpm if necessary (bug 634378) If debugedit is not found in PATH, then use debugedit installed by app-arch/rpm (if available). Suggested-by: Francesco Riosa <vivo75@gmail.com> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/634378 Acked-by: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> bin/ebuild-helpers/prepstrip | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)}