el_aur [1] filed an orphan request for php53 [2]: Package last updated at 2018-07-18 13:28. Asked maintainer to add me as co-maintainer but no luck. Have made working php53 build for modern archlinux [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/el_aur/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/php53/