From 5eb3b9bbeae591e3a858566b8e0cfc8964ca2495 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:49:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify contents of pre-method-9 footers

bug 7932
---
 dir-spec.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dir-spec.txt b/dir-spec.txt
index ca5434b..40ec304 100644
--- a/dir-spec.txt
+++ b/dir-spec.txt
@@ -1487,7 +1487,9 @@
     "directory-footer" NL
 
    It contains two subsections, a bandwidths-weights line and a
-   directory-signature.
+   directory-signature. (Prior to conensus method 9, footers only contained
+   directory-signatures without a 'directory-footer' line or
+   bandwidth-weights.)
 
    The bandwidths-weights line appears At Most Once for a consensus. It does
    not appear in votes.