diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/dconf/dconf-editor/0001-editor-meson.build-fix-meson-0.61-errors.patch b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/dconf/dconf-editor/0001-editor-meson.build-fix-meson-0.61-errors.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..850d8a9d47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/dconf/dconf-editor/0001-editor-meson.build-fix-meson-0.61-errors.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 86379a220a4eb00c309f514d2ca57ed6c1c8b35c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
+Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:22:58 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] editor/meson.build: fix meson 0.61 errors
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf-editor/-/merge_requests/21]
+Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
+---
+ editor/meson.build | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/editor/meson.build b/editor/meson.build
+index 4c89ab99..0eb3bb1a 100644
+--- a/editor/meson.build
++++ b/editor/meson.build
+@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
+ desktop = dconf_editor_namespace + '.desktop'
+ 
+ i18n.merge_file (
+-  desktop,
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: desktop + '.in',
+   output: desktop,
+@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ configure_file(
+ appdata = dconf_editor_namespace + '.appdata.xml'
+ 
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  appdata,
+   input: appdata + '.in',
+   output: appdata,
+   po_dir: po_dir,
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/dconf/dconf-editor_3.38.3.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/dconf/dconf-editor_3.38.3.bb
index 97e994c1fa..55b29139bb 100644
--- a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/dconf/dconf-editor_3.38.3.bb
+++ b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/dconf/dconf-editor_3.38.3.bb
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ DEPENDS = "dconf gtk+3"
 
 inherit gnomebase vala gettext gsettings bash-completion
 
+SRC_URI += " file://0001-editor-meson.build-fix-meson-0.61-errors.patch"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "571af4c7dad4f049b53e6cd728b79addf08c27ddab6bc57b396d211866ee79e3"
 
 FILES:${PN} += " \