diff -Nru gitg-41/debian/changelog gitg-41/debian/changelog
--- gitg-41/debian/changelog	2022-01-02 16:35:32.000000000 +0000
+++ gitg-41/debian/changelog	2022-02-13 15:11:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+gitg (41-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Team upload
+  * d/p/meson-drop-unused-argument-for-i18n.merge_file.patch:
+    Add patch from upstream to fix FTBFS with Meson 0.61
+    (Closes: #1005564)
+
+ -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:11:00 +0000
+
 gitg (41-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release
diff -Nru gitg-41/debian/patches/meson-drop-unused-argument-for-i18n.merge_file.patch gitg-41/debian/patches/meson-drop-unused-argument-for-i18n.merge_file.patch
--- gitg-41/debian/patches/meson-drop-unused-argument-for-i18n.merge_file.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ gitg-41/debian/patches/meson-drop-unused-argument-for-i18n.merge_file.patch	2022-02-13 15:11:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
+Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:17:52 +0000
+Subject: meson: drop unused argument for i18n.merge_file()
+
+Ignored in Meson < 0.60.0, deprecated since 0.60.1 and fatal since 0.61.0.
+
+data/meson.build:8:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+data/meson.build:44:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+
+Origin: upstream, 42, commit:1978973b12848741b08695ec2020bac98584d636
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1005564
+---
+ data/meson.build | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index a8b90fd..2413531 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ desktop_config = configuration_data()
+ desktop_config.set('icon', application_id)
+ desktop_config.set('binary', gitg_name)
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  desktop,
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: configure_file(
+     input: desktop + '.in.in',
+@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ appdata_config = configuration_data()
+ appdata_config.set('app-id', application_id)
+ appdata_config.set('gettext', gitg_name)
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  appdata,
+   type: 'xml',
+   input: configure_file(
+     input: appdata + '.in.in',
diff -Nru gitg-41/debian/patches/series gitg-41/debian/patches/series
--- gitg-41/debian/patches/series	2022-01-02 16:35:32.000000000 +0000
+++ gitg-41/debian/patches/series	2022-02-13 15:11:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+meson-drop-unused-argument-for-i18n.merge_file.patch