annotate -rNNN for a removed file

[Eli Zaretskii]

Is the history of a file that was "bzr remove"d gone forever?

There was a file src/strftime.c in the Emacs repository, which was
removed in revision 103037.  I wanted to "bzr annotate" it, so I typed

  bzr annotate -r103030 src/strftime.c

The result was an error message:

  bzr: ERROR: src/strftime.c is not versioned.

Do I expect too much?  Is there indeed not way of annotating a deleted
file?