Package: gcc-mingw32, mingw32,mingw32-binutils,mingw32-runtime
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer(s),
the current obscure mess of mingw* packages in Debian has
recently been discussed on debian-devel:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00219.html
A conclusion of the short discussion is probably that both mingw32 and
gcc-mingw32 packages (and their corresponding mingw32-binutils and
mingw32-runtime packages) in Debian are obsoleted and superseded by
the mingw-w64 packages family, i.e. gcc-mingw-w64 and mingw-w64-dev.
I'd thus like to suggest their removal from Debian.
Furthermore, the gcc-mingw-w64 package, although misleadingly labeled
w64, is able to produce object code targeted at both the 32-bit and
64-bit Windows platform. I'd thus suggest to split the package into
one component for each platform to avoid confusion and place
appropriate Replaces and Provides against the mingw32 package family.
Best regards,
Fabian
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