diff -Nru preseed-1.71ubuntu1/debian/changelog preseed-1.71ubuntu2/debian/changelog
--- preseed-1.71ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2016-02-24 06:40:56.000000000 -0500
+++ preseed-1.71ubuntu2/debian/changelog	2016-10-05 12:02:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+preseed (1.71ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix for netcfg/hostname, if set, to take precedence. (LP: #1452202)
+    - Modify debian/network-preseed.postinst
+
+ -- Eric Desrochers <eric.desrochers@canonical.com>  Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:01:39 -0400
+
 preseed (1.71ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=low
 
   * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
diff -Nru preseed-1.71ubuntu1/debian/network-preseed.postinst preseed-1.71ubuntu2/debian/network-preseed.postinst
--- preseed-1.71ubuntu1/debian/network-preseed.postinst	2016-02-24 00:13:13.000000000 -0500
+++ preseed-1.71ubuntu2/debian/network-preseed.postinst	2016-10-05 12:01:36.000000000 -0400
@@ -14,4 +14,19 @@
 	preseed_location "$dhcp_url"
 fi
 preseed preseed/url
+
+CURRENT_HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
+if db_get netcfg/hostname && [ "$RET" ]; then
+        if ! echo "$RET" | grep -q 'ubuntu'; then
+		# default hostname is ubuntu; if that's what we have in the
+		# netcfg/hostname template, then netcfg will already have
+		# done the right thing.
+		NETCFG_HOSTNAME="$RET"
+		/bin/sed -i "s/$CURRENT_HOSTNAME/$NETCFG_HOSTNAME/" /etc/hostname
+		/bin/sed -i "s/$CURRENT_HOSTNAME/$NETCFG_HOSTNAME/" /etc/hosts
+		/bin/hostname "$NETCFG_HOSTNAME"
+		/usr/bin/logger -t netcfg "d-i netcfg/hostname $NETCFG_HOSTNAME took precedence"
+	fi
+fi
+
 preseed_command preseed/early_command