bug#20325: convert "fixes:debbugs:123" in log to (Bug#123) in ChangeLog

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> No need to count.  The convention was very clear and followed fairly
> consistently: use (bug#NNN) in the ChangeLog, which gets turned into
> "Fixes: debbugs:NNNN" in the *VC-Log* buffer (and was then turned into
> a "--fixes debbugs:NNNN" argument to bzr which finally turned it into
> a "Fixes: URL" message in the "bzr log" output).
>
> Some/many (Bug#NNN) ended up in the commit log, and IIUC Eric's
> conversion to Git turned Bzr's internal "Fixes" into "Fixes: debbugs:NNNN".
>
> So, AFAIK, in terms of "pseudo-header syntax", the only thing we've used
> consistently is "Fixes: debbugs:NNNN".

Sounds to me like you just want to revert
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2015-04/msg00301.html
then. And "s/bug#/debbugs:" in the resulting CONTRIBUTE file.
(No idea where "Fixes: bug#" came from, other than a misunderstanding.)

(But Emacs developers as a whole seem incapable of following
conventions, so it's likely pointless.)