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On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 02:59:21PM +0100, Catonano wrote:
> I'm trying to package git-cola
> 
> it uses a makefile and such makefile calls the python machinery for
> building (python setup.py ...) with some arguments
> 
> make cannot find the command "python"
> 
> starting phase `build'
> make: python: Command not found
> python setup.py build
> make: python: Command not found
> make: *** [Makefile:91: build] Error 127
> phase `build' failed after 0.0 seconds
> 
> Python is in the inputs, though
> 
> Like this
> (inputs
>   `(("python" ,python)))
> 
> How can I let it find Python ?

The python package provides a `python3` executable, but not `python`.

You can use the python-wrapper package if you need a `python` executable
that is Python 3.

There's an example in the package definition of python-tlsh.