diff --git a/gvsbuild/patches/glib/glib-package-installation-directory.patch b/gvsbuild/patches/glib/001-glib-package-installation-directory.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from gvsbuild/patches/glib/glib-package-installation-directory.patch
rename to gvsbuild/patches/glib/001-glib-package-installation-directory.patch
diff --git a/gvsbuild/patches/glib/002-python-312-distutils-to-packaging.patch b/gvsbuild/patches/glib/002-python-312-distutils-to-packaging.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4f7eea6fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gvsbuild/patches/glib/002-python-312-distutils-to-packaging.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Subject: [PATCH] Replace distutils with packaging
+---
+Index: gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py
+IDEA additional info:
+Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
+<+>UTF-8
+===================================================================
+diff --git a/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py b/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py
+--- a/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py	(revision e93fd4cfc39167cf0ceb9c531238d9800d3d9edb)
++++ b/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py	(date 1705782834785)
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
+ #
+ # Author: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
+ 
+-import distutils.version
++import packaging.version
+ import os
+ import sys
+ 
+@@ -166,4 +166,4 @@
+         v = str(key[0])
+     else:
+         v = "0"
+-    return (distutils.version.LooseVersion(v), key[1])
++    return (packaging.version.Version(v), key[1])
diff --git a/gvsbuild/projects/glib.py b/gvsbuild/projects/glib.py
index 99c0f49b3..f28c036bd 100644
--- a/gvsbuild/projects/glib.py
+++ b/gvsbuild/projects/glib.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ def __init__(self):
                 "pcre2",
             ],
             patches=[
-                "glib-package-installation-directory.patch",
+                "001-glib-package-installation-directory.patch",
+                "002-python-312-distutils-to-packaging.patch",
             ],
         )
         self.add_param("-Dman=false")