That is an early design flaw - still going strong to that very day. It stems from the fact, that the version query was introduced later on, and the interface list query basically covered that as well. Additionally, parsed extcap interfaces where not parsed on a tool (meaning executable) level, but rather on a per-interface level. That resulted in the fact, that there was no storage in place for saving the version after parsing, except in extcap_interface.
extcap_tools is rather new to this concert (merged last week) and so the version moved there. But I am in the process of restructuring extcap_interface, and in that process I clean up a bit more. In the meantime, when in doubt, extcap_info->version is the one read by the overall system.
regards
Roland