The file api/Makefile is hard-coded to use both ${DESTDIR}${LIBDIR}/python2.5/site-packages and ${DESTDIR}${LIBDIR}/python2.6/site-packages instead of relying on whatever version of python is installed locally.
*** Bug 326113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Debian includes patches for this but still hardcoding paths (for 2.7) :-/ Will wait a month or so for a patch and, if nothing appears, maybe we should consider applying debian patches or lastritting this (as currently it doesn't work with stable python-2.7)
dropped