diff --git a/srcpkgs/simple-scan/patches/meson-0.61.patch b/srcpkgs/simple-scan/patches/meson-0.61.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e193747322c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/simple-scan/patches/meson-0.61.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From da6626debe00be1a0660f30cf2bf7629186c01d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: r-value <i@rvalue.moe>
+Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:43:11 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove incorrect i18n.merge_file argument
+
+The positional argument was being silently ignored until meson 0.60.0 where
+it fails with "ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments".
+---
+ data/meson.build | 6 ++----
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index 2b5a0ee3..cf6e4ae1 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -8,16 +8,14 @@ install_data ('org.gnome.SimpleScan.gschema.xml',
+               install_dir: join_paths (datadir, 'glib-2.0', 'schemas'))
+ meson.add_install_script ('meson_compile_gschema.py')
+ 
+-i18n.merge_file ('desktop-file',
+-                 input: 'simple-scan.desktop.in',
++i18n.merge_file (input: 'simple-scan.desktop.in',
+                  output: 'simple-scan.desktop',
+                  install: true,
+                  install_dir: join_paths (datadir, 'applications'),
+                  po_dir: '../po',
+                  type: 'desktop')
+ 
+-i18n.merge_file ('appdata-file',
+-                 input: 'simple-scan.appdata.xml.in',
++i18n.merge_file (input: 'simple-scan.appdata.xml.in',
+                  output: 'simple-scan.appdata.xml',
+                  install: true,
+                  install_dir: join_paths (datadir, 'metainfo'),
+-- 
+GitLab
+