Bug#453493: preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb

unfound 453493 ppp_2.4.4rel-9 forcemerge 455366 453493 thanks I had been looking for this report before filing #455366, but for some reason could not find it, possibly because of the wrong version info. Please use the patch in http://bugs.debian.org/455366 instead of this one as it is slightly

Bug#453493: preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb

Package: ppp-udeb Version: ppp_2.4.4rel-9 ppp-udeb fails when the hostname is preseeded. The problem is that debconf's db_input returns error code 30 when the asked value is preseeded. ppp-udeb.postinst bails out on this. Please check out the thread staring with