I don't see how this is a bug. Debian and Ubuntu in general try to
enable as many features of software packages as they can, almost
everything has Kerberos authentication of some form or another as a
feature, and because of how libraries and Debian dependencies work,
anything that /supports/ Kerberos authentication at all will depend on
libkrb5-3, causing them also to be removed when you try to remove
libkrb5-3. The other packages you're seeing removed are cascading broken
dependencies.
You can see, for example, the packages that are specifically being
removed because of the libkrb5-3 dependency:
e...@bester:~$ aptitude search ~i~Dlibkrb5-3
i cups - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
i A evolution-data-server - evolution database backend server
i A libcamel1.2-14 - The Evolution MIME message handling librar
i A libebook1.2-9 - Client library for evolution address books
i A libedata-book1.2-2 - Backend library for evolution address book
i A libedataserverui1.2-8 - GUI utility library for evolution data ser
i A libexchange-storage1.2-3 - Client library for accessing Exchange serv
i libgssapi-krb5-2 - MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - krb5 GSS-
i A libneon27-gnutls - An HTTP and WebDAV client library (GnuTLS
i A libsmbclient - shared library for communication with SMB/
i openssh-client - secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh/rcp rep
i A samba-common-bin - common files used by both the Samba server
i smbclient - command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix
They're some pretty core packages.
** Changed in: krb5 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Strange dependencies in "libkrb5-3" (kerberos) package
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501648
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