» Stephen Michael Kellat:

“[...] since so many dependencies are missing in Debian and therefore Ubuntu.”

Well, not so many, just one, which is already present in Debian Testing, and therefore will probably be in Ubuntu 18.04, I imagine.

AFAIK, the new dependency could even get to Debian 9 via the backports repo.

Choqok also needs that same thing, so extra interest =)