please consider bumping the ebuild to EAPI=5 and adding a slot operator to the dependency on dev-libs/icu (i.e., dev-libs/icu:= ) thanks!
ping
feel free to go ahead as this is maintainer-needed now
Package removed from tree. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2b2b32f650e62f7d79df328657e2b3fae4a817c3