diff --git a/drop-itstool-dep.patch b/drop-itstool-dep.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9abec30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drop-itstool-dep.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- orig-shared-mime-info-2.1/meson.build	2020-12-31 20:12:16.000000000 +0100
++++ shared-mime-info-2.1/meson.build	2021-11-18 21:11:08.493268746 +0100
+@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
+ ###############################################################################
+ # Find tools
+ 
+-itstool = find_program('itstool')
+ xmllint = find_program('xmllint')
+ xmlto   = find_program('xmlto')
+ 
diff --git a/fix-build-meson-0_60.patch b/fix-build-meson-0_60.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bd4847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-build-meson-0_60.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+From 981a16ad9f786cc8dbba8f057d9c1fe7358a7404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
+Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 18:22:47 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] migrate from custom itstool to builtin msgfmt for creating
+ translated XML
+
+gettext upstream has supported this for a very long time (since 0.19.7
+via commit b3c2a5a242c36fbbaa0c5b17f975d6c638598a23, released in 2015),
+and itstool is (mostly) a legacy of the time before gettext had proper
+support for these sorts of use cases.
+
+This is similar to the state of intltool, which is described at
+https://wiki.gnome.org/MigratingFromIntltoolToGettext
+
+During the port from autotools to meson, the legacy use of itstool was
+faithfully translated to meson in the only way possible: by jumping
+through hoops to run ninja inside ninja in order to generate the .mo
+files for itstool, because meson's i18n module used a flawed design and
+there was no "real" target to create those files, only a .PHONY
+run_target which other rules cannot depend on.
+
+Although meson 0.60.0 added support for real targets for the built .mo
+files, this changed the rules for output filenames, breaking the script.
+
+But msgfmt does not care, and anyways comes with builtin meson functions
+for convenient use with XML files. So let's take this opportunity to
+drop legacy dependencies and use the modern, builtin tooling, which
+fixes this bug as a side effect.
+
+Fixes #170
+---
+ data/freedesktop_generate.sh | 12 ------------
+ data/meson.build             | 16 +++++-----------
+ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
+ delete mode 100755 data/freedesktop_generate.sh
+
+diff --git a/data/freedesktop_generate.sh b/data/freedesktop_generate.sh
+deleted file mode 100755
+index 62ccffa..0000000
+--- a/data/freedesktop_generate.sh
++++ /dev/null
+@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
+-#!/bin/sh -e
+-
+-src_root="$1"
+-build_root="$2"
+-
+-ninja -C "${build_root}" shared-mime-info-gmo
+-
+-itstool \
+-    --its "${src_root}/data/its/shared-mime-info.its" \
+-    --join "${src_root}/data/freedesktop.org.xml.in" \
+-    -o "${build_root}/data/freedesktop.org.xml" \
+-    "${build_root}/po/"*".gmo"
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index 24361c9..09ed7a9 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
+ 
+ install_man('update-mime-database.1')
+ 
+-freedesktop_org_xml = custom_target('freedesktop.org.xml',
+-    input : files(
+-        'freedesktop.org.xml.in',
+-        'its/shared-mime-info.its',
+-        'its/shared-mime-info.loc',
+-    ),
++freedesktop_org_xml = i18n.merge_file(
++    input: 'freedesktop.org.xml.in',
+     output: 'freedesktop.org.xml',
+-    command: [
+-        find_program('freedesktop_generate.sh'),
+-        meson.source_root(),
+-        meson.build_root()
+-    ],
++    data_dirs: '.',
++    po_dir: '../po',
++    type: 'xml',
+     install: true,
+     install_dir: get_option('datadir') / 'mime' / 'packages',
+ )
+-- 
+GitLab
+
diff --git a/shared-mime-info.changes b/shared-mime-info.changes
index afed105..06bb225 100644
--- a/shared-mime-info.changes
+++ b/shared-mime-info.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov 18 19:55:47 UTC 2021 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
+
+- Add fix-build-meson-0_60.patch: Fix build with meson 0.60 and
+  newer.
+- Add drop-itstool-dep.patch: Drop itstool as it is no longer
+  needed, upstream was missing this in the patch. Following this:
+  drop itstool BuildRequires.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 16 02:05:30 UTC 2021 - Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/shared-mime-info.spec b/shared-mime-info.spec
index 24b38f8..d28d24a 100644
--- a/shared-mime-info.spec
+++ b/shared-mime-info.spec
@@ -27,8 +27,12 @@ Group:          System/X11/Utilities
 URL:            https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info
 Source0:        %{url}/uploads/%{commitid}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source1:        macros.shared-mime-info
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM fix-build-meson-0_60.patch -- Fix build with meson 0.60 and newer
+Patch0:         fix-build-meson-0_60.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM drop-itstool-dep.patch -- Drop itstool as it is no longer needed
+Patch1:         drop-itstool-dep.patch
+
 BuildRequires:  glib2-devel
-BuildRequires:  itstool
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
 # needed for xmllint
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-tools