Homepage link "http://www.dsmit.com/cons/" is dead (connect timeout) for more than a month. found with https://repology.org/repository/gentoo/problems and verified. /usr/portage/sys-devel/cons # GENTOO_MIRRORS="" ebuild cons-2.2.0.ebuild fetch >>> Downloading 'http://www.dsmit.com/cons/stable/cons-2.2.0.tgz' --2019-03-15 18:06:37-- http://www.dsmit.com/cons/stable/cons-2.2.0.tgz Resolving www.dsmit.com... 24.239.192.39 Connecting to www.dsmit.com|24.239.192.39|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --2019-03-15 18:07:38-- (try: 2) http://www.dsmit.com/cons/stable/cons-2.2.0.tgz Connecting to www.dsmit.com|24.239.192.39|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --2019-03-15 18:08:40-- (try: 3) http://www.dsmit.com/cons/stable/cons-2.2.0.tgz Connecting to www.dsmit.com|24.239.192.39|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Giving up. !!! Couldn't download 'cons-2.2.0.tgz'. Aborting. cons-2.3.0.ebuild works fine. /usr/portage/sys-devel/cons # GENTOO_MIRRORS="" ebuild cons-2.3.0.ebuild fetch >>> Downloading 'https://www.gnu.org/software/cons/dev/cons-2.3.0.tgz'
If later versions already have this fixed, then there is no point filing a bug report.