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 @array. Closes: #723841
[ Programs translations ]
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #718188
[ Manpages translations ]
* French updated. Closes: #697458
* German updated.
-- Joey Hess <[email protected]> Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:15:51 -0400
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Missing option -a on dpkg-reconfigure
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