diff --git a/multimedia/gst1-plugins-bad/Makefile b/multimedia/gst1-plugins-bad/Makefile
index 227b74bebe..5c818095e0 100644
--- a/multimedia/gst1-plugins-bad/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/gst1-plugins-bad/Makefile
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=gst1-plugins-bad
-PKG_VERSION:=1.17.1
+PKG_VERSION:=1.17.2
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/gst-plugins-bad-$(PKG_VERSION)
 PKG_SOURCE:=gst-plugins-bad-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
-PKG_HASH:=598937c818d0955543318203faa28d826eb68d487934be4737e999ad272210d0
+PKG_HASH:=fadbf229dbb29cae15ecb1858382aee60f2fa82067673598791c5fdfc52ad2cc
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org> \
 		Ted Hess <thess@kitschensync.net>
diff --git a/multimedia/gst1-plugins-bad/patches/010-distutils.patch b/multimedia/gst1-plugins-bad/patches/010-distutils.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7a17667d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/multimedia/gst1-plugins-bad/patches/010-distutils.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ gst_plugins_bad_args = ['-DHAVE_CONFIG_H']
+ configinc = include_directories('.')
+ libsinc = include_directories('gst-libs')
+ 
+-python3 = import('python').find_installation()
++python3 = 'python3'
+ 
+ gir = find_program('g-ir-scanner', required : get_option('introspection'))
+ gnome = import('gnome')