Now available there: https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent It offers new features like --source. Looks like some other distros followed, e.g. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/mktorrent/
Thank you four the bump request. * does a simple bump work for you? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_repository#Simple_version_bump_of_an_ebuild_in_the_local_overlay https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
I've had to change SRC_URI to SRC_URI="https://github.com/Rudde/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz" Otherwise, it compiles and works fine.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fac4da0c154b62802de249b11eabec4c9081f3d2 commit fac4da0c154b62802de249b11eabec4c9081f3d2 Author: Nils Freydank <holgersson@posteo.de> AuthorDate: 2017-12-04 21:55:33 +0000 Commit: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-12-04 22:08:32 +0000 net-p2p/mktorrent: Version bump to 1.1 with new upstream. I mailed the old upstream maintainer resp. developer of mktorrent and he confirmed the new maintainer with the repository on github to me. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/621590 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.16, Repoman-2.3.6 net-p2p/mktorrent/Manifest | 3 ++- net-p2p/mktorrent/mktorrent-1.1.ebuild | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)