Bug#329415: [php-maint] Bug#329415: php-pear: /usr/bin/pear calls 'php' but should call /usr/bin/php

[Adam Conrad]

Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> 
> /usr/bin/php calls 'php' unless one sets $PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN. If
> somebody like me has as second php installation in /usr/local/php5-cvs
> whose bin directory is before /usr/bin in the PATH, /usr/bin/pear
> will call /usr/local/php5-cvs/bin/php which may screw things up.

In practice, one hopes that this shouldn't mess up (calling /usr/bin/php
is already asking for either php4 or php5, this was intentional, and
should always work, so I'd hope your php5-cvs would also work), but
you're right that, in theory, we should only be calling packaged
binaries.  This will be fixed in the next upload.

... Adam