The mingw* mess in Debian

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Dear -devel,

is there a reason why we have both a mingw32 and a gcc-mingw32 package 
in Debian? Both seem to contain the same, i.e. the GCC from the MinGW 
project (please note they dropped the "32" for a while), but the 
version in gcc-mingw32 is newer than the one in mingw32.

For the 64-bit variant, there is a meta-package called mingw-w64 that 
pulls in gcc-mingw-w64 and mingw-w64-dev. However, for the 32-bit 
variant, the mingw32 package is not a meta-package but (an ancient 
version) the actual compiler, as stated above.

Then, some the package names are also inconsistent, compare 
mingw32-binutils and binutils-mingw-w64.

Is there a principle behind all this or where can I help to clean this 
up? ;)

Cheers,
Fabian