"bzr status" in a lightweight checkout

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:24:24 -0500
> From: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org>, bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> It does because accessing a lightweight checkout dereferences is branch
> pointer, which requires opening up the Branch which is remote (which
> also opens up its Repository).
> 
> I mentioned this a while back. ISTR that Robert didn't like lazy Branch
> objects because then they might be pointing to something invalid and you
> wouldn't know about it.

So is this a bug that should be reported, or does bzr have no choice
but accessing the repository?