haawda [1] filed a request to merge xkblayout-state [2] into xkblayout-state-git [3]:

No releases since 2010, so the tarball has 8 years old code. The former maintainer did not file a merge request (see comments).

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/haawda/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xkblayout-state/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xkblayout-state-git/