In contrast to 4.2.2 the 4.4.0 release integrated ode solvers. For the ode15 series nonlinear solvers from the sundial package are used. The current ebuild misses this dependence completely. Either add sci-libs/sundials:0/2 directly or via a use flag en-/disabling the ode15 support. If sundials happens to be installed, the package is detected correctly.
What about 5.2.0?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=789bf5a4cfe45faa2c3a8f31ef6b13516f2e1f41 commit 789bf5a4cfe45faa2c3a8f31ef6b13516f2e1f41 Author: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-12-01 01:41:58 +0000 Commit: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-12-01 04:47:44 +0000 sci-mathematics/octave: new version 6.1.0. Dropped keywords arm, arm64, hppa, ppc, and ppc64 due to a new USE-conditional dependency on sci-libs/sundials. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/660310 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.9, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> sci-mathematics/octave/Manifest | 1 + sci-mathematics/octave/metadata.xml | 1 + sci-mathematics/octave/octave-6.1.0.ebuild | 196 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 198 insertions(+)