Homepage link "http://axel.alioth.debian.org/" is dead (DNS problem) for more than a month. found with https://repology.org/repository/gentoo/problems and verified. /usr/portage/net-misc/axel # GENTOO_MIRRORS="" ebuild axel-2.4-r3.ebuild fetch >>> Downloading 'http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/3016/axel-2.4.tar.bz2' --2019-03-15 19:19:49-- http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/3016/axel-2.4.tar.bz2 Resolving alioth.debian.org... 5.153.231.21 Connecting to alioth.debian.org|5.153.231.21|:80... failed: No route to host. !!! Couldn't download 'axel-2.4.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
If later versions already have it fixed, then there is no point in filing a bug report.