Samba build problem revisited

A few months back, I was having problems building Samba. I'm back to
trying again. It seems like it is more of a problem with system header
files than with Samba.

The short of it is that there is an ebuild patch,
samba-2.2.8-statfs.patch , that is not being applied on Alpha (though it
is on sparc and ppc).
Also doing it on alpha fixes the build problem.

1- How can this package even be marked "stable" for Alpha if it won't
even build successfully? Or is it just me (and if so, why would it be)?

2- How do we get the ebuild file fixed?

Jeff D