This application doesn't seem to be in development anymore.  I believe this is 
supposed to be its homepage - http://www.tf.hut.fi/~flu/hacks/cplay/ which has 
an error message (I think).  The link posted takes you elsewhere, which also 
seems to have an error message.
As for dependencies, having it ask you for a program that uses it is not how 
the system works.  There are certainly many, many packages out there that are 
useless without programs that use them, but we can't expect the package 
managers to ask you each time you install such packages (though you could try 
to file a bug report to request that if you really thought it was necessary or 
useful w/out being annoying).  If you want to see what available packages 
depend on a specific package, use
 apt-cache rdepends <package>
If you were to run
 apt-cache rdepends python | grep cplay
you would see that cplay depends on python.

I feel that, because of the above, this bug can be closed with status
Won't Fix - please let me know what you think.  Thank you.

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cplay package dont install any player, leaving the frontend useless
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139459
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