Created attachment 383872 [details, diff] protobuf.patch Please bump protobuf to 2.6.0, patch attached.
After a discussion on irc my plan is to land this after testing reverse dependencies, hard masking the new version if needed.
Created attachment 385088 [details, diff] protobuf.patch This is an updated patch that makes it work with USE="python".
Use slot "0" of dev-python/python-dateutil (which supports both Python 2 and Python 3) instead of deprecated slot "python-2".
Actually dev-libs/protobuf-2.6.0 should not depend at all on dev-python/python-dateutil and dev-python/python-gflags.
(In reply to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis from comment #4) > Actually dev-libs/protobuf-2.6.0 should not depend at all on > dev-python/python-dateutil and dev-python/python-gflags. Fixed in the tree.