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:
It seems like this was a deliberate change:
debconf (1.5.52) unstable; urgency=low
[Joey Hess]
* Remove dpkg-reconfigure -a, which existed only to accumulate bug
reports about bugs in other packages.
Closes: #721329, #664825, #558262, #617618, #707987
* Fix bad uses of length
** Also affects: cdebconf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: cdebconf (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
** Changed in: cdebconf (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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