diff --git a/dev-vcs/gitg/files/41-fix-build-with-meson-0.61.1.patch b/dev-vcs/gitg/files/41-fix-build-with-meson-0.61.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0467f7d1ad8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-vcs/gitg/files/41-fix-build-with-meson-0.61.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gitg/-/commit/1978973b12848741b08695ec2020bac98584d636
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/831666
+
+From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
+Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:17:52 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] meson: drop unused argument for i18n.merge_file()
+
+Ignored in Meson < 0.60.0, deprecated since 0.60.1 and fatal since 0.61.0.
+
+data/meson.build:8:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+data/meson.build:44:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+---
+ data/meson.build | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index a8b90fd1..2413531d 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ desktop_config = configuration_data()
+ desktop_config.set('icon', application_id)
+ desktop_config.set('binary', gitg_name)
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  desktop,
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: configure_file(
+     input: desktop + '.in.in',
+@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ appdata_config = configuration_data()
+ appdata_config.set('app-id', application_id)
+ appdata_config.set('gettext', gitg_name)
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  appdata,
+   type: 'xml',
+   input: configure_file(
+     input: appdata + '.in.in',
+-- 
+GitLab
+
diff --git a/dev-vcs/gitg/gitg-41.ebuild b/dev-vcs/gitg/gitg-41.ebuild
index 37bca5db740..1474422be37 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/gitg/gitg-41.ebuild
+++ b/dev-vcs/gitg/gitg-41.ebuild
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 "
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PV}"-fix-build-with-meson-0.61.1.patch
+)
+
 src_prepare() {
 	default
 	vala_src_prepare