Ask HN: Parquet Outside Spark?

The Parquet file format (which is used by Spark and Hadoop) has column storage, stored complex nested data etc. I find a need to read these, and was surprised to find a lack of support in terms of libraries (in Debian for example). Is this format just not used much outside Spark & friends, so not much demand? Or some dark reason that the common Linux distros don't want to include it?