diff --git a/polkit-itstools.patch b/polkit-itstools.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..179d3ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/polkit-itstools.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+From c78819245ff8a270f97c9f800773e727918be838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
+Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:12:35 -0400
+Subject: Add gettext support for .policy files
+
+gettext can extract strings from and merge them back into xml
+file formats, with the help of .its files.
+
+https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96940
+
+diff --git a/data/Makefile.am b/data/Makefile.am
+index fe0f1d5..18693fe 100644
+--- a/data/Makefile.am
++++ b/data/Makefile.am
+@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ pkgconfig_DATA = polkit-gobject-1.pc polkit-agent-1.pc
+ 
+ # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 
++itsdir = $(datadir)/gettext/its
++its_DATA = polkit.loc polkit.its
++
++# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+ systemdservice_in_files = polkit.service.in
+ 
+ if HAVE_SYSTEMD
+diff --git a/data/polkit.its b/data/polkit.its
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..1312ecb
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/data/polkit.its
+@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
++<?xml version="1.0"?>
++<its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
++           version="2.0">
++  <its:translateRule selector="/action/description |
++                               /action/message"
++                     translate="yes"/>
++</its:rules>
+diff --git a/data/polkit.loc b/data/polkit.loc
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..c7427ec
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/data/polkit.loc
+@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
++<?xml version="1.0"?>
++<locatingRules>
++  <locatingRule name="polkit policy" pattern="*.policy">
++    <documentRule localName="policyconfig" target="polkit.its"/>
++  </locatingRule>
++</locatingRules>
+-- 
+cgit v0.10.2
+
+
diff --git a/polkit.changes b/polkit.changes
index 4404611..5e20de6 100644
--- a/polkit.changes
+++ b/polkit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Aug 15 12:20:52 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add polkit-itstools.patch: Add gettext support for .policy files.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun 13 15:25:58 UTC 2017 - lnussel@suse.de
 
diff --git a/polkit.spec b/polkit.spec
index 988169f..feeb064 100644
--- a/polkit.spec
+++ b/polkit.spec
@@ -17,15 +17,13 @@
 
 
 %define with_systemd 1
-
 Name:           polkit
+Version:        0.113
+Release:        0
 Summary:        PolicyKit Authorization Framework
 License:        LGPL-2.1+
 Group:          System/Libraries
-Version:        0.113
-Release:        0
 Url:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Source0:        http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz.sign
 Source2:        %name.keyring
@@ -38,6 +36,8 @@ Patch1:         polkit-no-systemd.patch
 Patch2:         polkit-revert-session-magic.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE polkit-gettext.patch lnussel@suse.de -- allow fallback to gettext for polkit action translations
 Patch3:         polkit-gettext.patch
+# PATCH-FEATURE-UPSTREAM polkit-itstools.patch dimstar@opensuse.org -- Add gettext support for .policy files, taken from git
+Patch4:         polkit-itstools.patch
 # needed for patch1
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 # needed for patch1
@@ -45,13 +45,17 @@ BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  glib2-devel >= 2.30.0
 BuildRequires:  gobject-introspection-devel >= 0.6.2
 BuildRequires:  gtk-doc
-# gtk-doc drags indirectyly ruby in for one of the helpers. This in turn causes a build cycle.
-#!BuildIgnore:  ruby
 BuildRequires:  intltool
 BuildRequires:  libexpat-devel
-# needed for patch1 and patch3
+# needed for patch1, patch3 and patch4
 BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pam-devel
+# gtk-doc drags indirectyly ruby in for one of the helpers. This in turn causes a build cycle.
+#!BuildIgnore:  ruby
+Requires:       dbus-1
+Requires:       libpolkit0 = %{version}-%{release}
+PreReq:         permissions
+PreReq:         pwdutils
 %if 0%{?with_systemd}
 BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsystemd)
@@ -62,16 +66,12 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(mozjs-17.0)
 %else
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(mozjs185)
 %endif
-PreReq:         permissions pwdutils
 %if ! %{with_systemd}
 Requires:       ConsoleKit
 %endif
-Requires:       dbus-1
-Requires:       libpolkit0 = %{version}-%{release}
 %if %{with_systemd}
 %systemd_requires
 %endif
-
 # Upstream First - Policy:
 # Never add any patches to this package without the upstream commit id
 # in the patch. Any patches added here without a very good reason to make
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ This package provides the GObject Introspection bindings for PolicyKit.
 %endif
 %patch2 -p1 -R
 %patch3 -p1
+%patch4 -p1
 
 %build
 export V=1
@@ -158,14 +159,11 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 %make_install
-rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.la
+rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
 # create $HOME for polkit user
 install -d %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/lib/polkit
 %find_lang polkit-1
 
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
 %pre
 getent group polkitd > /dev/null || groupadd -r polkitd
 getent passwd polkitd > /dev/null || useradd -r -g polkitd -d %{_localstatedir}/lib/polkit -s /sbin/nologin -c "User for polkitd" polkitd
@@ -253,6 +251,8 @@ exit 0
 %{_bindir}/pk-example-frobnicate
 %{_datadir}/gir-1.0/*.gir
 %{_datadir}/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.examples.pkexec.policy
+%{_datadir}/gettext/its/polkit.its
+%{_datadir}/gettext/its/polkit.loc
 
 %files doc
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)