I would've done this long ago, but I really don't want to be the package maintainer for a number of reasons:
- jitspoe doesn't like supporting linux so that makes the job 10x harder
- I don't have a suitable dev environment for Ubuntu or the hardware to test any reasonable current gaming systems
- The package would have to go into multiverse since it isn't as "free" as everyone thinks it is. (Most people don't even turn on multiverse packages)
- The game is still in "alpha" stage and will never get out of it
- There aren't really any sort of defined milestones
- There have been numerous patch fixes for Linux that've come post-release which makes me think that I'll be wasting a lot of time repackaging and retesting each time there is a little (yet necessary) update.
- I can't touch any code to fix any problems unless I get the checksum for all the changed binaries (in each environment...) to jitspoe so he's not banning people for modified clients.
- I get enough PMs as it is from people who've installed linux for something to do and want help getting DP to run. The fact that we even have a handful of legitimate Linux users that are using wine to run this game is a pretty big statement itself.
Maybe if some of these things get cleared up, we might see our game in a
real "Top 5".