Re: pkg-config --modversion freetype2

[Werner LEMBERG]

> When I run `pkg-config --modversion freetype2` on my Ubuntu 20.04, I
> get weird version number: `23.1.17`.  This does not look like a
> freetype version number at all to me.

It's the libtool version, which is the important thing.  It is an
abomination to make tarball versions equal to DLL versions.  For
example, FreeType tarball versions could change without a change to
the DLL version.

See file `docs/VERSION.TXT` in the FreeType tarball for more.


    Werner