according to the web site http://www.mercury.to/ we have now this two possible version Latest final : 1.8 Latest beta : 1.9 Beta 5 I'f be glad to see one of them in the portage tree(if it's possible). Thank you
The way upstream packages mercury is a pain. They provide a bunch of external jar's from other projects and give little credit or when given there is no info on the versions used. I'm not going to update this. In fact this package is taged for removal.
*** Bug 157772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reopening for removal request; it's been package.masked for ages.
removed from tree