When building without meson, `setup.py` generates a weird verion string `1.26.1.26.0`.

Numpy's code has a logical error when doing some code clean-up in commit [1].
This causes the abnormal version string `1.26.01.26.0`, and then `setuptools`
normalized this string as `1.26.1.26.0`.

See also:
[1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/a880c68752c47a63577e55689275b5fb9d6595a3
[2] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24196#discussion_r1291739515
--- a/numpy/distutils/core.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/core.py
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@
         elif isinstance(dv, dict):
             _dict_append(dv, **v)
         elif is_string(dv):
-            d[k] = dv + v
+            assert is_string(v)
+            d[k] = v
         else:
             raise TypeError(repr(type(dv)))