These scripts are no replacements for the old ones, but new scripts doing the same as the old scripts but in a different environment.
This script is not installed, it is just mentioned in the documentation that you can use it on your servers to populate the information in the MIB.
So, my suggestion would be to just add it to the scripts directory, maybe in a subdirectory, and mention it in the same documentation.
I could ofcourse try to modify the scripts and check what codepath to use, but I have not Debian install to test against and I really do not need it.
In r12998 added complete new pass_persist script, now python based.
For FRR it try read from both places (by vtysh and later from frr.conf).
sudo pip install snmp_passpersist
pass_persist .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18 /usr/local/bin/ifAlias.py
restart snmpd