ExcellentApo wrote:First of all Freeorion is already part of Debian and available here.
What's the current status on that? 0.4.3 has been out for several days...As soon as 0.4.3 is released I will ask my "sponsor" to upload Freeorion to Debian unstable.
GoodFrom there it will be automatically mirrored by Ubuntu, so that I assume it will be part of Ubuntu 13.10.
Well, the problem is, we've to rely on Nagilum for that. Unfortunately, as far as I understood, his ability to contribute to FO is very limited ATM. As I already mentioned, he can't/doesn't follow the discussions on the forums, only responds to PMs. He only did the RC builds at my request, I doubt that he will be able to provide test builds in the near future.If you want to provide more recent developer snapshots of Freeorion for Debian based users, then that's an excellent idea.
So unless someone else comes along who's capable and willing to take over that task, the only builds for Linux available will be the official releases provided by the Debian repos. I can only provide builds for Windows and OSX.