Thibault Saunier authored Oct 14, 2021 and GStreamer Marge Bot committed Oct 15, 2021

Since 547570cd we do not always build
PyGObject and our development environment is broken when trying to use
GStreamer python when built against system PyGObject with the following
error importing Gst in there:

```
12345678** (gst-plugin-scanner:710617): CRITICAL **: 11:45:02.343: can't find gi.repository.Gst
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gi/repository/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ..importer import DynamicImporter
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 33, in <module>
    from .overrides import load_overrides
ImportError: cannot import name 'load_overrides' from 'gi.overrides' (/var/home/thiblahute/devel/gstreamer/gstreamer/subprojects/gst-editing-services/bindings/python/gi/overrides/__init__.py)
Factory Details:
```

The approach to fixing it is to implement override `gi` in
`gst-python/gi/` which we add to `PYTHONPATH`) and in there reset the
`gi` module to the right place and we get overrides from paths from
`_GI_OVERRIDES_PATH` we set in `gst-env.py` which points to all the
overrides that will be installed.

Part-of: <!1155>