Bug#1117960: orca fails to launch

[Huey Chen]

Package: orca
Version: 49.1-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: horsey_guy at proton.me

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Dear Maintainer,

Launching `orca` always fails with:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/orca", line 65, in <module>
    from orca import debugging_tools_manager
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/debugging_tools_manager.py", line 49, in <module>
    from . import focus_manager
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/focus_manager.py", line 39, in <module>
    from . import braille
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/braille.py", line 42, in <module>
    from . import brlmon
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/brlmon.py", line 44, in <module>
    from . import script_manager
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/script_manager.py", line 46, in <module>
    from .scripts import apps, default, sleepmode, toolkits
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/scripts/default.py", line 54, in <module>
    from orca import orca
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/orca.py", line 62, in <module>
    from . import sound
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 183, in <module>
    _player: Player = Player()
                      ~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 58, in __init__
    self.init()
    ~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 118, in init
    Gst.init(None)
    ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value
```


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.16.11+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages orca depends on:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0           2.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0            2.86.0-4
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0       1.27.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0             3.24.50-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0           1.56.3-2
ii  gir1.2-wnck-3.0            43.3-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  49.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.27.2-1+b1
ii  init-system-helpers        1.69
ii  python3                    3.13.7-2
ii  python3-brlapi             6.8-3
ii  python3-cairo              1.27.0-2
ii  python3-dasbus             1.7-2
ii  python3-dbus               1.4.0-1
ii  python3-gi                 3.52.3-1
ii  python3-louis              3.35.0-2
ii  python3-psutil             7.1.0-1
ii  python3-setproctitle       1.3.6-2
ii  python3-speechd            0.12.1-2
ii  speech-dispatcher          0.12.1-2
ii  xkbset                     0.8-1

Versions of packages orca recommends:
ii  xbrlapi  6.8-3

Versions of packages orca suggests:
pn  brltty  <none>

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