Suggested fix lp:#213718 (bazaar pager)

[Richard Wilbur]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Adrian Wilkins
<adrian.wilkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/15 13:00,  Daniel Vedder <d.vedder at web.de> wrote:
>> permission problems on one of my partitions
>
> The usual cause of this is accessing a Windows filesystem from Linux.
>
> Windows has no +x bit, so when you mount its file systems in Linux it
> sets it implicitly for every file so you can run exe files, shell
> scripts, etc.
>
[...]
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/248333
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/377243
>
> Jelmer notes in the comments of the top one that he had a branch that
> starts a solution to this.

@Adrian:  Thanks for bringing this up.  I didn't know about Jelmer's
previous work.

@Jelmer:  I had a look at the branches of bzr on launchpad.net and
didn't see one of yours with 248333 or 'permissions' in the name.  Is
it still there?  Do you still have access to that code?  Would you be
willing to resurrect this branch?

This looks like a nasty usability problem for some users that with
some coding effort could "Just work."  You made some good suggestions
for directions toward a solution in the bug report that make it sound
like the coding effort should be moderate to minimal if someone were
able to start from your branch.

Sincerely,
Richard