Bug Report

Problem

cordova plugin add ... errors and installs older plugin version even though the requirements of the plugin are met just fine.

What is expected to happen?

I can install the plugin.

What does actually happen?

E:\Projects\throwaway
λ cordova create cordovaLibRepro
Creating a new cordova project.

E:\Projects\throwaway
λ cd cordovaLibRepro\

E:\Projects\throwaway\cordovaLibRepro  (helloworld@1.0.0)
λ cordova platform add https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows
Using cordova-fetch for https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows
Warning: using prerelease platform windows@7.1.0-dev.
Use 'cordova platform add windows@latest' to add the latest published version instead.
Adding windows project...
Creating Cordova Windows Project:
        Path: platforms\windows
        Namespace: io.cordova.hellocordova
        Name: HelloCordova
Windows project created with cordova-windows@7.1.0-dev
Installing "cordova-plugin-whitelist" for windows

E:\Projects\throwaway\cordovaLibRepro  (helloworld@1.0.0)
λ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-splashscreen
Unmet project requirements for latest version of cordova-plugin-splashscreen:
    cordova-windows (7.1.0-dev in project, >=4.4.0 required)
Fetching highest version of cordova-plugin-splashscreen that this project supports: 3.2.2 (latest is 5.0.3)
Installing "cordova-plugin-splashscreen" for windows
Adding cordova-plugin-splashscreen to package.json

The -dev suffix of cordova-windows master seems to confuse the comparison logic, but it shouldn't as this is valid semver for a prerelease version: https://semver.org/#spec-item-9

Information

Relevant bit of the plugin package.json: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen/blob/be85a1b14e69696b6c0355c754181c8d57d0837f/package.json#L30-L44

Version information

9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)

Checklist

[x] I searched for existing GitHub issues
[x] I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
[x] I included all the necessary information above

apache / cordova-lib

`cordovaDependencies` check fails if installed dependency has a matching pre-release version #790