debreate: debreate : Depends: python-wxgtk2.8 but it is not installable

I tried to install debreate on my system (Ubuntu 16.04) and got the following error message

sunyata@sunyata-Aspire-ES1-131:~/PycharmProjects$ sudo apt install debreate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 debreate : Depends: python-wxgtk2.8 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
sunyata@sunyata-Aspire-ES1-131:~/PycharmProjects$

Doing a search (sudo apt-cache search python-wxgtk) i found that the package python-wxgtk3.0 is available in the official repo, maybe just updating to allow versions later than 2.8 will solve this issue?