PluginDependency.minPluginVersion?

Type: string

The oldest release of the required plugin the dependent works with, e.g. '2.2.0'.

For a provider whose BEHAVIOR changed while its API contract stayed the same, which apiVersionRange cannot see. A dependency enabled below it counts as UNSATISFIED and asks the user to update it. Evaluated against manifest.version; a version that cannot be parsed counts as too old. A minimum rather than a range, because the only advice the gate can give is "update it", and an upper bound is a version no update reaches.