Yes, this was intentionally removed, as in practice it's horribly inconvenient to use and (because it called maintainer scripts for literally every installed packages) ended up running into all sorts of bugs in other packages. We don't intend to bring this back - sorry.
** No longer affects: cdebconf (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1416732 Title: Missing option -a on dpkg-reconfigure To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/1416732/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs