diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-nettool/patches/meson-drop-unused-positional-arguments.patch b/srcpkgs/gnome-nettool/patches/meson-drop-unused-positional-arguments.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..332379faea8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-nettool/patches/meson-drop-unused-positional-arguments.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 1124c3e1fdb8472d30b7636500229aa16cdc1244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>
+Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 13:05:25 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] meson: drop unused positional arguments
+
+This fixes a build error with newer meson
+---
+ data/meson.build | 6 ++----
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index 585e6d3..ed1e8bb 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -20,16 +20,14 @@ desktop_in = configure_file(input: 'gnome-nettool.desktop.in.in',
+                             output: 'gnome-nettool.desktop.in',
+                             configuration: desktop_conf)
+ 
+-i18n.merge_file('desktop',
+-                type: 'desktop',
++i18n.merge_file(type: 'desktop',
+                 input: desktop_in,
+                 output: 'gnome-nettool.desktop',
+                 po_dir: po_dir,
+                 install: true,
+                 install_dir: join_paths(prefix, datadir, 'applications'))
+ 
+-i18n.merge_file('appdata',
+-                type: 'xml',
++i18n.merge_file(type: 'xml',
+                 input: 'gnome-nettool.appdata.xml.in',
+                 output: 'gnome-nettool.appdata.xml',
+                 po_dir: po_dir,
+-- 
+GitLab
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnome-nettool/template b/srcpkgs/gnome-nettool/template
index 89f5705d629..f578e59d00e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gnome-nettool/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnome-nettool/template
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'gnome-nettool'
 pkgname=gnome-nettool
-version=3.8.1
-revision=6
-build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="glib-devel intltool itstool pkg-config"
+version=42.0
+revision=1
+build_style=meson
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config gettext itstool glib-devel"
 makedepends="bind-utils desktop-file-utils gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel
  gtk+3-devel hicolor-icon-theme iputils libgtop-devel net-tools traceroute"
 depends="bind-utils desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme iputils net-tools
@@ -13,8 +13,4 @@ maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://www.gnome.org"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/${pkgname}/${version%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=f0a4510d9fe5eae4c91b63ade9848992b2795108e76eff7f51dc3decf7df2cb1
-
-post_patch() {
-	vsed -i -e 's/DATADIRNAME=lib/DATADIRNAME=share/' configure
-}
+checksum=a54f29eef2038aee69551c8b19ca4f758e5eb9e2090a4bc6b5633dff0188751f