bug#51526: [CORE-UPDATES] python3.8 hardcoded locations

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> Mercurial and ansible both have python3.8 hardcoded in the
> native-search-paths for their package. I can just bump it to 3.9 but we
> really should change it to something like (python-version
> (package-inputs this-package python))
>
> git grep python3\\.8

As the comment says in the source, the ideal would have been to be able
to reuse the native-search-path of Python for ansible, but that
introduced a cycle.  Perhaps there's something that could be done to
avoid it?

Thanks,

Maxim