meson: allow setting the version string during configuration
    
    Very loosely based on upstream commits e1ca734edd17a90a325d5b566a4ea96e66c206e5
    and 681bd2c524ed71ac04045c90884ba8d55eee7b66.
    
    Resolves: #1804252
    
    patch_name: 0416-meson-allow-setting-the-version-string-during-config.patch
    present_in_specfile: true
    location_in_specfile: 416
    squash_commits: true