diff --git a/test/package/debian-mingw64/compat b/test/package/debian-mingw64/compat
index 7ed6ff8..48082f7 100644
--- a/test/package/debian-mingw64/compat
+++ b/test/package/debian-mingw64/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5
+12
diff --git a/test/package/debian-mingw64/control b/test/package/debian-mingw64/control
index e7916d0..df942b7 100644
--- a/test/package/debian-mingw64/control
+++ b/test/package/debian-mingw64/control
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 Maintainer: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
 Section: misc
 Priority: optional
-Standards-Version: 3.8.4
+Standards-Version: 4.6.1.0
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
-Homepage: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html
+Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html
 
 Package: mingw64-ncurses-examples
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: ncurses-examples - example/test programs from ncurses
+Description: example/test programs from ncurses
  These are the example/test programs from the ncurses distribution.
  .
  This package is used for testing ABI 6 with the MinGW 64-bit port.
diff --git a/test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright b/test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright
index ea1fdff..7546e1c 100644
--- a/test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright
+++ b/test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
-Upstream source http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html
+Upstream source https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html
 
 Current ncurses maintainer: Thomas Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Files: *
-Copyright: 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-Licence: X11
+Copyright: 2017-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+License: X11
 
 Files: aclocal.m4 package
-Copyright: 2003-2014,2015 by Thomas E. Dickey
-Licence: X11
+Copyright: 2003-2023,2024 by Thomas E. Dickey
+License: X11
 
     Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
     copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Files: install-sh
 Copyright:  1994 X Consortium
-Licence: X11
+License: X11
 
     Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
     of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
diff --git a/test/package/debian-mingw64/rules b/test/package/debian-mingw64/rules
index d0f17cd..02175a6 100755
--- a/test/package/debian-mingw64/rules
+++ b/test/package/debian-mingw64/rules
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
-# MAde with the aid of dh_make, by Craig Small
+# Made with the aid of dh_make, by Craig Small
 # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. GNU copyright 1997 by Joey Hess.
 # Some lines taken from debmake, by Cristoph Lameter.
 
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 CC_NORMAL = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wconversion
 CC_STRICT = $(CC_NORMAL) -W -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -ansi -pedantic
 
+NCURSES_PKG = ncurses-examples
+
 TARGET    = x86_64-w64-mingw32
 MINGW_BIN = /usr/bin
 MINGW_TOP = /usr/$(TARGET)
@@ -39,6 +41,8 @@
 		--host=$(TARGET) \
 		--target=$(TARGET) \
 		--prefix=$(MINGW_TOP) \
+		--bindir=\$${prefix}/bin/$(NCURSES_PKG) \
+		--datadir=\$${prefix}/share/$(NCURSES_PKG) \
 		--with-screen=ncursesw6 \
 		--with-pkg-config-libdir=/usr/$(TARGET)/lib/pkgconfig
 
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@
 install-stamp: build-stamp
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k
+	dh_prep
 	dh_installdirs
 
 	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(MINGW_TMP)
diff --git a/test/package/debian-mingw64/watch b/test/package/debian-mingw64/watch
index 1d08098..ec075b1 100644
--- a/test/package/debian-mingw64/watch
+++ b/test/package/debian-mingw64/watch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 version=3
 
-opts=passive ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses-examples/ncurses-examples-([\d.]+)\.tgz \
+opts=passive ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses-examples/ncurses-examples-([\d.]+)\.tgz \
  debian  uupdate