Re-opening: as stated in bug 988471, it should probably use "env" by default for the source "installation", but replace it with a fixed path to python during installation (for distributions), defaulting to /usr/bin/python.
The comment from bug 988471:
"""
Ideally, your development (i.e. vcs trunk) version would use /usr/bin/env but the distro-installed version would use /usr/bin/python.
"""
Re-opening: as stated in bug 988471, it should probably use "env" by default for the source "installation", but replace it with a fixed path to python during installation (for distributions), defaulting to /usr/bin/python.
The comment from bug 988471:
"""
Ideally, your development (i.e. vcs trunk) version would use /usr/bin/env but the distro-installed version would use /usr/bin/python.
"""