There are no known critical dependencies for jack and pulse to interact properly.

They way jack is packaged for Debian/Ubuntu, only jack2 will be able to grab the card.
For this, you only need two packages. pulseaudio and jackd2
There are no known packages on Debian/Ubuntu that will let jack1 grab the card from pulse-

diff --git a/_manual/03_setting-up-your-system/08_platform-specifics/01_ubuntu-linux.html b/_manual/03_setting-up-your-system/08_platform-specifics/01_ubuntu-linux.html
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--- a/_manual/03_setting-up-your-system/08_platform-specifics/01_ubuntu-linux.html
+++ b/_manual/03_setting-up-your-system/08_platform-specifics/01_ubuntu-linux.html
@@ -120,9 +120,6 @@ title: Ubuntu Linux
   <ul>
     <li>a bug in PulseAudio that causes it not to give up the
       soundcard when JACK asks (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1163638">LP: #1163638</a></li>
-    <li>bad package dependency information that causes a critical
-      package to be missing even when JACK and PulseAudio are
-      installed</li>
     <li>a bug that causes JACK to freeze up when told to stop, 
       causing issues with restarting</li>
   </ul>