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@Siegfried:
sed magic in the Makefile sounds fine.
@Markus:
In NetBSD pkgsrc, multiple versions of python can be installed at the same time. They are called python2.4, python2.5, ...; also multiple versions of python modules can be installed, once per python version.
Also, pkgsrc doesn't install into /usr, but /usr/pkg by default.
I can't talk about other packaging systems or Linux distributions, but I think pkgsrc isn't the only one that does it like that, since I've seen support for similar schemes in quite a few programs. They usually check for a usable python interpreter in the configure phase and then use it during installation.
So my suggestion is checking for the existence of python, python2.4, python2.5, python2.6 (python3.0/3.1 if supported), overridable from the environment (e.g. ${PYTHONBIN}) and making a rule that replaces the interpreter in the installed files with the found python executable.