Why force every user that installs virtualbox to have the kernel headers
and a development environment installed? That then also puts files under
/lib/modules/<kernel version> that aren't under dpkg's control, which
defeats among other things, update-initramfs, since you remove the old
kernel, but the virtualbox modules are still there, which means dpkg
won't remove the directory, and update-initramfs says "Ah, I need to
regenerate the initramfs for every directory under /lib/modules". Which
now includes the old kernel, since dpkg didn't delete the directory.
This leads to user confusion as well, since update-initramfs will say
that it is updating the initramfs for that old kernel which the user has
just removed.

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virtualbox should depend on virtualbox-source
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137599
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