Not 'holding' but you pre populate the questions to avoid the prompting. Sadly `DEBIAN-FRONTEND: noninteractive` is not enough to avoid prompts when the package requires and answer, so the only way around this issue is 'answering before they ask', dpkg_selections allows you to do this.
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