Request #26979 has been rejected by alerque [1]: Was not out of date (the flag was bogus, I checked upstream) and the missing dependency had just been renamed elsewhere in the AUR. It could still use a maintainer but since it has sort of recent votes I patched up and left it for somebody else to run with if they use it.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alerque/
