Tests built fine and Fedora has built it with py38 a few months ago: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/file/c/4eabae241d3db7f492dba114e7c2684b02708158?branch=master
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4c6aee54a30cc6846f4154ddbe260b21d201bfea commit 4c6aee54a30cc6846f4154ddbe260b21d201bfea Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-11-30 15:06:21 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-12-02 14:23:48 +0000 sys-apps/file: python3_8 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/701564 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.80, Repoman-2.3.19 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> sys-apps/file/file-5.37-r1.ebuild | 2 +- sys-apps/file/file-9999.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)