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I don't think there's a specific reason why some scripts use /usr/bin/python. For 99% of the users (on Ubuntu, for example) it doesn't make a difference, since they use the default python, so the script works for them either way. But you're right, the env version is more flexible, so my suggestion is whenever you run into a bug caused by this, write a bug report in the package's bug tracker.