As per comment 9, upstream has closed this bug. My mistake :P
They did however make the following comment
".... the packages are valid dependencies, as finch can link with X
libraries for some of its optional features and libpurple can use D-Bus.
Surely, however, most of those packages are only recommended and can be
avoided by the use of `apt-get --no-install-recommends install finch`."
As per comment 9, upstream has closed this bug. My mistake :P
They did however make the following comment
".... the packages are valid dependencies, as finch can link with X recommends install finch`."
libraries for some of its optional features and libpurple can use D-Bus.
Surely, however, most of those packages are only recommended and can be
avoided by the use of `apt-get --no-install-
Perhaps this isn't a bug after all?