Comment 3 for bug 1894045

Easiest fix is just adding python-dev-is-python2 to build dependencies instead of python2-dev. This creates the magic link that makes the configure script think that python is available.

Debian source/build package uses python-dev instead, but that is just a virtual package which ends up being either python-dev-is-python2 or python-dev-is-python3. But python3 does not work since the configure script uses print without parentheses.

If one is willing one look into if the python binary is actually needed. Since modpython.so is just a plugin for ganglia it should just use libpython2 and that is what configure should look for. But that might be too much work.