> I think that would go more smoothly collaborating with the upstreams
> from the beginning; for example, we had some tweaks and bug-fixes
> related to python support in Automake (see in particular the commits
> v1.12.4-43-ge0e99ed and v1.12.5-14-g1f113f6 in the Automake's git
> repository), and yo
>> What happens in pyconfigure (more on that in a moment) is that you can
>> pass an argument to AC_PROG_PYTHON. So if you want to use Python 2
>> specifically, you first search for it with AC_PROG_PYTHON([python2]).
>> In a standard system, this should find the most recent Python 2
>> interpreter.
>>
> Me too, mostly. But I agree that there is an underlying issue (albeit
> not major).
>
>> The "Future Changes to this Recommendation"
>> section of PEP 394 anticipates changing the `python' symlink to
>> `python3' at some point in the future.
This has already happened in Parabola, Arch and ot
