Remote variables not populated for drupalci/php image ref with `gitlab-ci-local` usage

Thanks so much for creating the issue upstream and in here and for the fix and the test.
The downstream pipelines are running here too https://git.drupalcode.org/issue/gitlab_templates-3499267/-/pipelines/39...

RTBC.

Merged to "main". I'll do a release probably today and push it to all contrib.
Thanks!

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