Current version in tree 1.7.2 is pretty outdated and could be updated to 1.8.1: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/releases
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
Yes, simple bump works fine.
https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/releases/tag/pylint-1.8.2 already.
PR created: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7265
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6c990a9fd3e56d41b768ee3283c141bdfb7cda56 commit 6c990a9fd3e56d41b768ee3283c141bdfb7cda56 Author: kapsh <kapsh@kap.sh> AuthorDate: 2018-02-27 05:18:04 +0000 Commit: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-02-27 22:59:00 +0000 dev-python/pylint: version bump to 1.8.2. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/644208 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7265 dev-python/pylint/Manifest | 1 + dev-python/pylint/pylint-1.8.2.ebuild | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)