On the web UI front it has a lot more dependencies and some are in debian (like bootstrap, datatables, jquery). The API there is a lot less stable there so unbundling would be harder there.
Most of the bundling w.r.t. to native dependencies can be disabled where
Debian packages are already available (with configure flags
--without-embedded-sqlite3 --without-embedded-lua--without-embedded-lmdb
). Is this tested? No. I guess tclap could be handled similarily... but
that one would only be a build dependency. There are also native
dependencies that aren't packaged in debian yet like miniz (
https://github.com/richgel999/miniz ) or libfastcgi.
