MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for qt5-imageformats-git [2]:

Not useful to keep this package.

Qt5 is EOL since May 2023.

This PKGBUILD currently builds from upstream's dev branch for Qt6.

Also, Qt Group's public Qt5 branch is typically behind the source used
by the stable PKGBUILD in extra repo, because Qt devs delay pushing
Qt5 patches by one year, whereas the KDE project cherry-picks and
backports most of the patches accepted for Qt5 but not yet publicly
pushed by Qt Group.

Therefore the extra repo build is better for users to use, because it
is based on newer code which has less bugs.

And because of all this, the extra/qt5* packages are quite like git
VCS packages.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/qt5-imageformats-git/

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