can you suply a patch to be able to build with meson 0.59.4?

[adcdam]

what new feature has that needs version 0.62?

[eli-schwartz]

The project started requiring 0.62 in commit 8275d65 -- the description of that commit says a bit about what new features it was interested in.

[ximion]

It's mostly to get rid of tons of helper scripts and work around bugs related to XML translations in Meson.
So we need install_symlink, i18n.itstool_join, fs.is_file (and the whole filesystem module), the changed i18n.gettext semantic (with its return types complete) and probably more that I forgot.
So, backporting it would actually by super annoying, which was the reason for the version bump in the first place.