diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
index d301c8dd88..1945a12c31 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ exclude_packages = [
 	'go-runtime',
 	'go_',
 	'go-',
-	'meson',
 	'ovmf-shell-efi',
 	'ruby-ri-docs'
 	]
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson.inc
index 8454d18c28..fc3ca85fae 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson.inc
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ SRC_URI_append_class-native = " \
     file://0002-Support-building-allarch-recipes-again.patch \
 "
 
+# remove at next version upgrade or when output changes
+PR = "r1"
+HASHEQUIV_HASH_VERSION .= ".1"
+
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "meson-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)\.tar"
 
@@ -31,3 +35,13 @@ inherit setuptools3
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "ninja python3-modules python3-pkg-resources"
 
 FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/polkit-1"
+
+do_install_append () {
+	# As per the same issue in the python recipe itself:
+	# Unfortunately the following pyc files are non-deterministc due to 'frozenset'
+	# being written without strict ordering, even with PYTHONHASHSEED = 0
+	# Upstream is discussing ways to solve the issue properly, until then let's
+	# just not install the problematic files.
+	# More info: http://benno.id.au/blog/2013/01/15/python-determinism
+	rm ${D}${libdir}/python*/site-packages/mesonbuild/dependencies/__pycache__/mpi.cpython*
+}