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 Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cdebconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1416732 Title: Missing option -a on dpkg-reconfigure Status in debconf package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: I'm using debconf 1.5.55ubuntu2 and I'm noticing that the option -a to reconfigure all installed packages does not exist anymore. Is there a special reason that it got removed? Maybe it can be implemented again. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/1416732/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp