Isn't Debian literally the one distro where that shouldn't be a problem? You create a package called "constrictor2.7", and set it up to provide /usr/bin/python

Isn't Debian literally the one distro where that shouldn't be a problem? You create a package called "constrictor2.7", and set it up to provide /usr/bin/python using update-alternatives. Then #!/usr/bin/python and #!/usr/bin/env python both work.