diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnote/patches/meson-0.61.patch b/srcpkgs/gnote/patches/meson-0.61.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e5575c0fa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnote/patches/meson-0.61.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 32795e53681e3ecbaaa05817d4eb5fa1c124d35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
+Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:53:17 +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:4:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+data/meson.build:41:0: 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 a6138165..8d16368a 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ install_man('gnote.1')
+ 
+ desktop_file = 'org.gnome.Gnote.desktop'
+ gnote_desktop_file = i18n.merge_file(
+-  desktop_file,
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: desktop_file + '.in',
+   output: desktop_file,
+@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ configure_file(
+ 
+ gnote_appdata = 'org.gnome.Gnote.appdata.xml'
+ appdata_file = i18n.merge_file(
+-  gnote_appdata,
+   input: gnote_appdata + '.in',
+   output: gnote_appdata,
+   po_dir: '../po',
+-- 
+GitLab
+