Comment 39 for bug 207409

Guys, the old dpkg-reconfigure was no panacea. It was barely more tolerable to people than editing xorg.conf. Tons more people complained about it than are complaining now that it's gone. It failed more than it worked anyway, was a huge buggy hack of a code, and it consumed too much maintenance energy upstream at Debian. They dropped it with good riddance once the autoconfigure stuff proved to be sufficiently reliable. And for similar reasons, its too cumbersome to be practical for Ubuntu to maintain instead.

This bug report seems to have turned into more of a discussion forum than something that can feasibly be implemented. Unless someone can propose an actually implementable idea, then I think this should be closed as invalid. I'll leave it open for now to see if any practical approaches get suggested.