Hello Daniel,
wifite in Debian (and Kali) is based on https://github.com/derv82/wifite2 . There is no commit there since september 2018 but a lot of opened issues and pull requests.
In Kali we received the suggestion to use this repo instead:
https://github.com/kimocoder/wifite2
It has updates and Python3 fixes.
What do you think? Should we switch?
Regards,
Sophie