diff --git a/package/debian-mingw64/changelog b/package/debian-mingw64/changelog
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2875a59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/debian-mingw64/changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+ncurses6 (6.0+20150808) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * latest weekly patch
+
+ -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>  Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:13:39 -0400
+
+ncurses6 (5.9-20131005) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * initial release
+
+ -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>  Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:35:29 -0400
diff --git a/package/debian-mingw64/compat b/package/debian-mingw64/compat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ed6ff8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/debian-mingw64/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+5
diff --git a/package/debian-mingw64/control b/package/debian-mingw64/control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a17ed1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/debian-mingw64/control
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Source: ncurses6
+Section: libdevel
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
+Homepage: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7)
+Standards-Version: 3.8.2
+
+Package: mingw64-ncurses6
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
+Description: shared libraries for terminal handling
+ The ncurses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
+ updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
+ .
+ This package is used for testing ABI 6 with the MinGW 64-bit port.
diff --git a/package/debian-mingw64/copyright b/package/debian-mingw64/copyright
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43cb3e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/debian-mingw64/copyright
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+Upstream source http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html
+This package is used for testing builds of ncurses.
+
+Current ncurses maintainer: Thomas Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Files: *
+Copyright: 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Licence: X11
+
+Files: aclocal.m4 package
+Copyright: 1996-2014,2015 by Thomas E. Dickey
+Licence: X11
+
+Files: doc/html/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+Copyright: 2001 by Pradeep Padala
+Licence: X11
+
+    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+    copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+    "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+    without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+    distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell
+    copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+    furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+    in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
+    OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+    MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+    IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
+    DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
+    OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR
+    THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+    Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright
+    holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the
+    sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
+    authorization.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Files: install-sh
+Copyright:  1994 X Consortium
+Licence: X11
+
+    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+    of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
+    deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
+    rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
+    sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+    furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+    all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+    X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+    AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNEC-
+    TION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+    Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not
+    be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other deal-
+    ings in this Software without prior written authorization from the X Consor-
+    tium.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Files: progs/tset.c ncurses/tinfo/read_termcap.c
+Copyright: 1980,1991,1992,1993 The Regents of the University of California.
+License: BSD
+
+    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+    are met:
+    1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+    2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+       documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+    3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+       may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+       without specific prior written permission.
+
+    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+    ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+    IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+    ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+    FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+    DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+    OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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+    LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+    OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+    SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+-- vile: txtmode file-encoding=utf-8
diff --git a/package/debian-mingw64/rules b/package/debian-mingw64/rules
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..04a21a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/debian-mingw64/rules
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# 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.
+
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+
+# These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
+# from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
+DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE   ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
+
+BUILD_CC = gcc
+
+CC_NORMAL = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wconversion
+CC_STRICT = $(CC_NORMAL) -W -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -ansi -pedantic
+
+TARGET    = x86_64-w64-mingw32
+MINGW_BIN = /usr/bin
+MINGW_TOP = /usr/$(TARGET)
+MINGW_TMP = $(CURDIR)/debian/mingw64-ncurses6
+
+CFLAGS = $(CC_NORMAL)
+
+CONFIG_OPTIONS = \
+	--disable-echo \
+	--disable-db-install \
+	--disable-getcap \
+	--disable-hard-tabs \
+	--disable-leaks \
+	--disable-macros \
+	--disable-overwrite \
+	--disable-termcap \
+	--enable-interop \
+	--enable-pc-files \
+	--enable-term-driver \
+	--enable-warnings \
+	--enable-widec \
+	--verbose \
+	--with-abi-version=6 \
+	--with-cxx-shared \
+	--with-develop \
+	--with-fallbacks=unknown,rxvt \
+	--with-shared \
+	--with-trace \
+	--with-xterm-kbs=DEL \
+	--without-ada \
+	--without-debug \
+	--without-manpages \
+	--without-progs \
+	--without-tests
+
+export CFLAGS BUILD_CC
+
+ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+        CFLAGS += -O0
+else
+        CFLAGS += -O2
+endif
+ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+        INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s
+endif
+
+configure: configure-stamp
+configure-stamp:
+	dh_testdir
+
+	CC=$(TARGET)-gcc \
+	CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \
+	./configure \
+		--host=$(TARGET) \
+		--target=$(TARGET) \
+		--prefix=$(MINGW_TOP) \
+		--with-build-cc=$(BUILD_CC) \
+		--with-pkg-config-libdir=/usr/$(TARGET)/lib/pkgconfig \
+		$(CONFIG_OPTIONS)
+
+	touch configure-stamp
+
+build: build-stamp
+build-stamp: configure-stamp
+	dh_testdir
+
+	$(MAKE)
+
+	touch build-stamp
+
+clean:
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+
+	[ ! -f makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
+
+	rm -f configure-stamp build-stamp install-stamp
+
+	dh_clean
+
+install: install-stamp
+install-stamp: build-stamp
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_clean -k
+	dh_installdirs
+
+	$(MAKE) install.libs DESTDIR=$(MINGW_TMP)
+
+	mkdir -p $(MINGW_TMP)$(MINGW_BIN)
+	for name in $(MINGW_TMP)$(MINGW_TOP)/bin/*-config; \
+	do \
+		base=`basename $$name`; \
+		ln -v $$name $(MINGW_TMP)$(MINGW_BIN)/$(TARGET)-$$base; \
+	done
+
+	touch install-stamp
+
+# Build architecture-independent files here.
+binary-indep: build install
+# No binary-indep target.
+
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
+binary-arch: build install
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_installchangelogs NEWS
+	# dh_strip
+	dh_compress
+	dh_fixperms
+	dh_installdeb
+	dh_shlibdeps
+	dh_gencontrol
+	dh_md5sums
+	dh_builddeb
+
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install install-stamp
diff --git a/package/debian-mingw64/source/format b/package/debian-mingw64/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89ae9db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/debian-mingw64/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (native)
diff --git a/package/debian-mingw64/watch b/package/debian-mingw64/watch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..945a996
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/debian-mingw64/watch
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+version=3
+
+opts=passive ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/ncurses\.tar.gz \
+ debian  uupdate