unison version 2.51.2 is available (the new version does not allow to sync with an older version! ...) the code repository was moved to github. in the ebuild i had to change SRC_URI to https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz and remove the Makefile-dep patch.
There is a PR awaiting heroxbd's review at https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9173 . Because slotting in v2.48's ebuild has some problems, it also involves bumping eselect-unison.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=27dfa0e4f1a7848454d19177bde693415a6d45e1 commit 27dfa0e4f1a7848454d19177bde693415a6d45e1 Author: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-08-27 18:44:31 +0000 Commit: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-08-27 18:45:52 +0000 net-misc/unison: bump to 2.51.2 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/651972 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.48, Repoman-2.3.10 net-misc/unison/Manifest | 3 ++ net-misc/unison/unison-2.48.4-r1.ebuild | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net-misc/unison/unison-2.51.2.ebuild | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 172 insertions(+)