diff -Naur shared-mime-info-2.1.orig/data/freedesktop_generate.sh shared-mime-info-2.1/data/freedesktop_generate.sh
--- shared-mime-info-2.1.orig/data/freedesktop_generate.sh	2021-12-14 00:28:02.284628243 +0100
+++ shared-mime-info-2.1/data/freedesktop_generate.sh	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -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 -Naur shared-mime-info-2.1.orig/data/meson.build shared-mime-info-2.1/data/meson.build
--- shared-mime-info-2.1.orig/data/meson.build	2021-12-14 00:28:02.285628247 +0100
+++ shared-mime-info-2.1/data/meson.build	2021-12-14 00:29:28.972927773 +0100
@@ -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',
 )