distcc 3.1 deb pump fails because of missing python2.4 about distcc HOT 2 OPEN

In another bug report, Fergus said the .deb was generated from the .rpm via 
alien. I 
guess alien doesn't set the package dependencies correctly? It would also be 
trivial 
to set the first line in pump to something else.

The first line in pump is "#!/bin/sh".
The line which causes the error is line 287, which executes $PYTHON,
which is set on line 31 of the pump script, to a value determined by configure.

The source distribution's configure script checks for python 2.5, and then 
python
2.4, and if none of those are found in PATH, uses /usr/bin/python. So the source
distribution is doing the right thing.  The problem comes only in the binary
distribution, which ships the pump script as configured on the build machine, 
but
without recording the right dependency in the .deb.

Using /usr/bin/python in the binary distribution would cause obscure problems on
systems where /usr/bin/python is python 2.3 or earlier.  So I think probably 
the best
way to fix it is to record the right dependency in the .deb.  But I don't know 
how to
do that.  Patches welcome...