This is a call out for Gentoo developers who would be interested in maintaining the dev-db/sqlite package. The current (proxied) maintainer is somewhat difficult to work with, and I would prefer that a full developer take this over. The base-system project would probably be willing to co-maintain this if desired.
There is an open QA bug [1] regarding the large set of undocumented patches that are being applied in the stable ebuilds. The current ~arch versions of dev-db/sqlite drop these patches, and it would be good for someone to do some testing of reverse dependencies. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/825278
