sys-libs/db-5.2.42 was released. sys-libs/db-5.3.21 was released.
These were both added to the tree: *db-5.3.21 (12 Nov 2012) 12 Nov 2012; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> +db-5.3.21.ebuild: Early days, but useful for some testing still. src_test fails dismally still. 21 Oct 2012; Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org> db-4.8.30.ebuild: stable arm, bug #429188 *db-5.2.42 (08 Oct 2012) 08 Oct 2012; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> +db-5.2.42.ebuild: Version bump. I am sorry to see that nobody took the time to inform you by closing your bug report. Better late than never...
I had already upgraded to these versions, but I forgot about this bug...