[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Tests fail if the Python interpreter binary isn't called "python" (#1034)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Airtower created an issue: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1034



Some tests (the tlsfuzzer tests, and `tests/suite/multi-ticket-reception.sh`) fail if the Python interpreter binary isn't called `python`. That is the case at least on Debian(-ish) systems with only Python 3 installed, where the interpreter is called `python3`. Part of this must be fixed in tlsfuzzer (I've already [raised an issue there](https://github.com/tomato42/tlsfuzzer/issues/670)).

For the GnuTLS side of things the proper fix would be to use `AM_PATH_PYTHON` in `configure.ac`, and use the `PYTHON` variable provided by it to call the interpreter.

I'll be happy to prepare a patch, just one question: Is there any reason not to strictly require Python 3? Tlsfuzzer and tlslite-ng both give their requirements as at least Python 3.3 or 2.6. `AM_PATH_PYTHON` does not support those as alternatives, so it's either 3.3 (or newer), or no version check.

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