From 796ff2627dc599d5011de3007716c26cc2d6ea8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "justdave%bugzilla.org" <>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:37:43 +0000
Subject: Bug 409598: Explain our version numbers in UPGRADING-pre-2.8 r=colin

---
 UPGRADING-pre-2.8 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'UPGRADING-pre-2.8')

diff --git a/UPGRADING-pre-2.8 b/UPGRADING-pre-2.8
index 9d0da5e24..fd35b7bdb 100644
--- a/UPGRADING-pre-2.8
+++ b/UPGRADING-pre-2.8
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ If you are upgrading from 2.8 or newer, please read the Installation and
 Upgrade instructions in The Bugzilla Guide, found with this distribution in
 docs/html, docs/txt, and docs/sgml.
 
+Please note that the period in our version numbers is a place separator, not
+a decimal point.  The 14 in version 2.14 is newer than the 8 in 2.8, for
+example.  You should only be using this file if you have a single digit
+after the period in the version 2.x Bugzilla you are upgrading from.
+
 For a complete list of what changes, use Bonsai
 (http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsqueryform.cgi) to
 query the CVS tree.  For example,
-- 
cgit v1.2.3-24-g4f1b