Comment 7 for bug 278062

Is this a packaging problem, or a problem coming from upstream?
For hardy, kdebase-bin depends on:

kdebase-bin-kde3, kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.8-1), libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.18), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1, libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libjpeg62, libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-14), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8-b), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxkbfile1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, libxt6, libxtst6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)

Which looks pretty sensible.
For intrepid:

dolphin, kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.1.2), kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.1.2), libc6 (>= 2.4), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglu1-mesa | libglu1, libqt4-dbus (>= 4.4.3), libqt4-qt3support (>= 4.4.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.3), libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.3), libraw1394-8, libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libx11-6, kdebase-data (= 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu3)

So, just because of this single dependency you get kdelibs5, kdebase-runtime, dolphin and all associated dependancies.

If its a packaging problem, this could be solved by splitting the package. Perhaps a kdebase-bin-kde3/kdebase-bin-kde4 split (with all legacy applications using kdebase-bin-kde3), or making separate kdebase packages; I don't know why dolphin, kdebase-runtime and kdelibs5 are now required to be deps, but for instance whoever requires them could be made to depend on a kdebase-dolphin and/or have explicit deps on kdelibs5 and kdebase-runtime instead.