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+If a bug was introduced before the oldest currently supported release series
+of Tor, and it's hard to track down where it was introduced, you may say
+"bugfix on all supported versions of Tor."
+
If at all possible, try to create the changes file in the same commit where
you are making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no other
branch will use for the lifetime of your change. We usually use "ticketNNNNN"