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@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ If the running version of CMake is lower than the ``<min>`` required
version it will stop processing the project and report an error.
The optional ``<max>`` version, if specified, must be at least the
``<min>`` version and affects policy settings as described below.
+If the running version of CMake is older than 3.12, the extra ``...``
+dots will be seen as version component separators, resulting in the
+``...<max>`` part being ignored and preserving the pre-3.12 behavior
+of basing policies on ``<min>``.
The ``FATAL_ERROR`` option is accepted but ignored by CMake 2.6 and
higher. It should be specified so CMake versions 2.4 and lower fail