Bug#1117960: orca fails to launch

[Samuel Thibault]

Control: reassign -1 gstreamer1.0
Control: retitle -1 1.27.2-1 broke Gst.init(None), making applications startup break
Control: found -1 1.27.2-1
Control: affects -1 + orca
Control: severity -1 grave

Hello,

Huey Chen, le dim. 12 oct. 2025 15:55:49 -0700, a ecrit:
>   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

Oops, API change on the gstreamer side:

> ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0       1.27.2-1

in the experimental version. Simply running

import gi
from gi.repository import Gst
Gst.init(None)

breaks.

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Gst.init%28None%29&literal=1

seems to be showing a lot of Gst.init(None) calls, so perhaps the
gstreamer1.0 should rather fix the API break? Or else a MBR should be
done to let packages fix their call before breaking all of them.

With regards,
Samuel