Comment 1 for bug 1824913

I've prepared -- and just uploaded to Debian unstable -- version 1.9.0-2 which builds cleanly on Bionic without a need for backporting patches.

If updating Bionic to a version which has never been in Ubuntu is out of question, 1.8.0-3 in Disco is adequate. There are improvements and new features in 1.9 that would be nice to have, but the vital part required for pmem support is already in 1.8. This support is easier to use on 1.9, though.