diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit/0001-Remove-incorrect-args-for-i18n.merge_file.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit/0001-Remove-incorrect-args-for-i18n.merge_file.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..66df3c269d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit/0001-Remove-incorrect-args-for-i18n.merge_file.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From ea9a15afb76c093aea37f6c56c559b61afd9a9f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: rvalue <i@rvalue.moe>
+Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 07:02:09 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove incorrect args for i18n.merge_file
+
+The positional argument has been silently ignored for a time. And it causes failure
+with "ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments" since meson 0.60.0
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/-/merge_requests/124]
+Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
+---
+ data/meson.build | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index bb61387..28d72a1 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ install_man('gedit.1')
+ 
+ appdata = 'org.gnome.gedit.appdata.xml'
+ appdata_file = i18n.merge_file(
+-  appdata,
+   input: appdata + '.in',
+   output: appdata,
+   po_dir: '../po/',
+@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ endif
+ 
+ desktop_file = 'org.gnome.gedit.desktop'
+ desktop_output_file = i18n.merge_file(
+-  desktop_file,
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: desktop_file + '.in',
+   output: desktop_file,
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit_40.1.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit_40.1.bb
index 5a9c499764..df8ab620c7 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit_40.1.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit_40.1.bb
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ def gnome_verdir(v):
 
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
 
+SRC_URI += " file://0001-Remove-incorrect-args-for-i18n.merge_file.patch"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "55e394a82cb65678b1ab49526cf5bd43f00d8fba21476a4849051a8e137d3691"
 
 # gobject-introspection is mandatory and cannot be configured