MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mingw-w64-paraview510 [2]:

Unused legacy package with wrong name* (not for major version 510, but
for version 5.10).

(* Arch package guidelines only allow major version number to be
attached to pkgname, otherwise one should use dots where needed, or
preferably follow the pattern used in Ruby package guidelines.)

PKGBUILD uses undeclared sources: executes curl (undeclared
makedepend) to download many patch files, without checksum
verification. Maintainer ignored my request I made in a comment on
2023-09-12 to rectify this issue.

There's an AUR/mingw-w64-paraview package, which has the same
violations. But I think that one should be corrected and this
superfluous build can be deleted.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-paraview510/

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