Bug 409598: Explain our version numbers in UPGRADING-pre-2.8

r=colin

diff --git a/UPGRADING-pre-2.8 b/UPGRADING-pre-2.8
index 9d0da5e2469e2497f6847fe108b508aef4bcb37c..fd35b7bdb0879b77bbad66a723b9bf9653612bdf 100644 (file)
--- 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,