Spring RTS Engine

hi, i'm sill using "Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010 and supported until April 2013"

yesterday it was announced: spring 0.84 is comming. today it is out. and - great thing - it found in synaptic package manager.

but it has an unresolvend dependency: otf-freefont..
"Depends: otf-freefont but it is not installable
Recommends: springlobby but it is not going to be installed or
spring-lobby"

otf-freefont is found in natty narwal and later ubuntus...

do i need to upgrade ubuntu to play oder is there hope i can stay with lucid lynx?

EDIT:
i was told other 10.04 guys had no problems. hm.

now i'm compiling the whole thing. elder dual core pc, ubuntu lts.. takes a while.
a better list of dependencies would be very appreciated by all self-compilers.. in old "how to build spring on debians" there are some newer libboost-xxx-dev things missing.
cmake wanted asciidoc and docbook-xsl - that alone takes >700megs - what for?
i'm now at over 50% compiled.. i hope it will work...

I used the otf-freefont package from Maverick.
Manually download the package from the web and install with sudo dpkg -i

Works like a charm and I've seen no negative effects so far. Probably the easiest (but not the "cleanest") way to get it running.

Edit:
Regarding the dependencies: do you know the "apt-get build-dep <package>" option?
It downloads and installs the packages necessary to build the source package <package>. Won't save you download time, but a lot of searching for the packages you need to build it.