If a package does not release a x.y.0 version we fail in this line: https://github.com/xarray-contrib/minimum-dependency-versions/blob/2aa8d512cd1be32e606c217832c998016bbd552e/minimum_versions.py#L175 we should allow this by using the first version >= x.y.0. One package is netCDF 1.7 https://github.com/conda-forge/netcdf4-feedstock/pull/164 (or regionmask 0.12) I am happy to take a look but could be good to fix #17 first.