[php-maint] Bug#819139: Bug#819139: php5-dev: php-config5 --php-binary gives unversioned result

[Ondřej Surý]

JFTR php5 is not going to be shipped in Debian stretch, so this will get
fixed itself when php5 is removed from the archive.

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 04:24, Olly Betts wrote:
> Package: php5-dev
> Version: 5.6.19+dfsg-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> "php-config5 --php-binary" gives "/usr/bin/php" which is a managed by
> alternatives.  Currently /usr/bin/php7.0 has the highest priority:
> 
> $ update-alternatives --config php
> There are 2 choices for the alternative php (providing /usr/bin/php).
> 
>   Selection    Path             Priority   Status
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> * 0            /usr/bin/php7.0   70        auto mode
>   1            /usr/bin/php5     50        manual mode
>   2            /usr/bin/php7.0   70        manual mode
> 
> On a system with both php5-cli and php7.0-cli installed (which users who
> have
> installed php-cli will have, since this dependency package has now
> switched to
> pulling in php7.0-cli), the upshot is that you get the wrong PHP
> interpreter
> version:
> 
> $ php-config5 --php-binary
> /usr/bin/php
> $ /usr/bin/php --version
> PHP 7.0.4-6 (cli) ( NTS )
> Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
>     with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend
>     Technologies
> 
> Really "php-config5 --php-binary" should give "/usr/bin/php5":
> 
> $ /usr/bin/php5 --version
> PHP 5.6.19-2 (cli) 
> Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
>     with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend
>     Technologies
> 
> It appears that php-config7.0 gets this right:
> 
> $ php-config7.0 --php-binary
> /usr/bin/php7.0
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages php5-dev depends on:
> ii  autoconf      2.69-9
> ii  automake      1:1.15-4
> ii  libpcre3-dev  2:8.38-3.1
> ii  libssl-dev    1.0.2g-1
> ii  libtool       2.4.6-0.1
> ii  php5-common   5.6.19+dfsg-2
> ii  shtool        2.0.8-8
> 
> Versions of packages php5-dev recommends:
> ii  dh-php5        0.2
> ii  pkg-php-tools  1.32
> 
> php5-dev suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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