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Yes of course, when you mention parallel it is always referred to the parallel port, for Mesa we use header or IDC26 port.
Mesa header can do everything a parallel port can, at speeds of up to 10MHz/s for each pin (se above for parallel port speed), but can also do input or output on any of the 17 pins, and can have secondary hardware functions like PWM or stepgen or encoder inputs or....

@HalaszAttila,

Mabye just give it a try on a LinuxCNC v2.8.4 version.
The repository has info how to install, patch.
Maybe others can help to setup a vm and test it for you, as my vm is broken at the moment.

@Evgen,
That is not possible unless you edit the source in the ~/debian dir.

For shipping software, you can considering using ~/opt/linuxcnc as the installation dir for a .deb package.
Creating a .deb package from linuxcnc that installs in ~/opt/linuxcnc dir is clean way to go.
 

You might want to attach your config files so people get an idea of what you are doing.