Diffoscope 155 requires Python >= 3.7, contrary to what the ebuild says. You cannot even install it with Python 3.6. Reproducible: Always emerge --info (for completeness): Portage 3.0.2 (python 3.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.30-r8, 5.4.57 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.57-x86_64-AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_6344-with-gentoo-2.7 KiB Mem: 132183652 total, 108044864 free KiB Swap: 134217724 total, 134217724 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 11:30:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: a2507c52c40fdff77cfe5784cfe5381b588bb485 Head commit of repository arduino-overlay: 21fb53086dfe006e14f22ccd098b4d117faeea89 sh bash 5.0_p18 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 ccache version 3.7.11 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 5.0_p18::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.3-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18-r1::gentoo, 3.6.11-r2::gentoo, 3.7.8-r2::gentoo, 3.8.5::gentoo, 3.9.0_beta5::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.7.11::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.18.1::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.20::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.12.6-r2::gentoo, 1.13.4-r2::gentoo, 1.14.1-r2::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo, 1.16.2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.34-r2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 8.4.0-r1::gentoo, 9.3.0-r1::gentoo, 10.2.0::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.3.1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.4-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.30-r8::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-vcs-ignore: true my_local location: /var/db/paludis/repositories/my_local masters: gentoo sortsmill chemoelectric sortsmill location: /var/db/paludis/repositories/sortsmill-gentoo-overlay masters: gentoo crossdev location: /usr/local/portage-crossdev masters: gentoo priority: 10 arduino-overlay location: /var/db/paludis/repositories/arduino-overlay sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/mapmot/arduino-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 flatpak-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/flatpak-overlay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/fosero/flatpak-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 kde location: /var/lib/layman/kde sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 lisp location: /var/lib/layman/lisp sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/lisp.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 nix-guix location: /var/lib/layman/nix-guix sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/trofi/nix-guix-gentoo.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 science location: /var/lib/layman/science sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/sci.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 chemoelectric location: /var/db/paludis/repositories/chemoelectric-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 60 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -fno-stack-protector -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.6/conf" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -fno-stack-protector -pipe" DISTDIR="/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --oneshot --buildpkg=y --buildpkg-exclude="sys-kernel/vanilla-sources" --keep-going=y " ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -fno-stack-protector -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync metadata-transfer multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict strict-keepdir unknown-features-warn unmerge-backup unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -fno-stack-protector -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j24" PKGDIR="/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi activities alsa amazoncloud amd64 amr apng avahi avx bash-completion berkdb bidi bluetooth bluray branding bzip2 cairo caps ccache cdda cddb cdr chm chromaprint cli cmake crypt cups curl custom-modes dane dbus declarative development dirac djvu dri dts dvd dvdr ebook ecls elogind emacs emboss emovix encode eselect-ldso evdev exif ffmpeg fftw fits flac floppy fluidsynth fontconfig fortran fpx frei0r fuse gdbm gegl gif gimp gme gmp googledrive gpm graphviz gs gsm gtk gui guile guile_single_target_guile3_0 guile_targets_guile2_0 guile_targets_guile2_2 guile_targets_guile3_0 haptic harfbuzz hdri hscolour http httpd iconv icu id3tag idn imagemagick imap inkjar introspection ipv6 java javafx javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kate kde kipi kmod konqueror kpathsea kwallet lapack lapacke lcms ldap lensfun libcaca libnotify libsamplerate libtirpc lqr lua lv2 lvm lxde lz4 lzma lzo mad maildir mediacenter mjpeg mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mpfr mudflap multilib multimedia musepack musicbrainz natspec ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ocamlopt ocr ogg openctl openexr opengl openmp openpgp opus pam pango pcre pcre16 pcre32 pdf phonon plasma png policykit postscript ppds printsupport prison projectm pulseaudio pygments python qalculate qml qt-faststart qt5 quickstarter raw rdp readline rle rtmp samba sasl scanner schroedinger sddm sdl seccomp semantic-desktop sensord share shout sid silgraphite smp sndfile sox speex spell split-usr sse sse2 sse4a ssl startup-notification svg taglib tcpd telepathy tesseract theora threads tidy tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vaapi vcd vlc vnc vorbis vpx wavpack webgl webkit webp widgets wmf wpd wxwidgets x264 xattr xbase xcb xft xml xmp xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib zsh-completion zstd" ABI_X86="64 32" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2019" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse4a" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-US" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="nlpsolver scripting-beanshell scripting-javascript wiki-publisher" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-2 php7-3" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7 pypy3 python3_6 python3_8 python3_9" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="*" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="*" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 ruby26 ruby27" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9d99e07b263ad60af6e628bb28dc1c9aee3a97cc commit 9d99e07b263ad60af6e628bb28dc1c9aee3a97cc Author: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-10 22:01:15 +0000 Commit: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-10 22:01:27 +0000 dev-util/diffoscope: drop python-3.6 Reported-by: Barry Schwartz Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/736549 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.2, Repoman-2.3.23 Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> dev-util/diffoscope/diffoscope-155.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Let's make it >=python-3.7. Thanks for the report!