diff --git a/srcpkgs/accountsservice/patches/meson-0.61.patch b/srcpkgs/accountsservice/patches/meson-0.61.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9245afdd47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/accountsservice/patches/meson-0.61.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From ac9b14f1c1bbca413987d0bbfeaad05804107e9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
+Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:29:14 +0000
+Subject: Fix build with meson 0.60
+
+Positional parameters to merge_file() were never allowed and always
+ignored, so just drop it.
+See: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/9441
+
+Fixes #97
+---
+ data/meson.build | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index 70edf89..9e80299 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ configure_file(
+ policy = act_namespace.to_lower() + '.policy'
+ 
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  policy,
+   input: policy + '.in',
+   output: policy,
+   po_dir: po_dir,
+-- 
+cgit v1.2.1
+