Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

Hi,

The description of the imagemagick package (8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1)
on my Stable system includes the statements:

"This is a dummy package.  You can safely purge or remove it."

But trying to remove it rips out cups, because:

~$ aptitude why imagemagick
i   cups         Depends cups-filters (>= 1.0.24-3~)
i A cups-filters Depends imagemagick (>= 6.4~)

What gives?

Celejar