/usr/share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES is a symbolic link to itself on head

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From: Ryan Stone <rysto32_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 22:53:49 UTC

I happened to trip over this after doing a source upgrade on a machine
running -HEAD.  A fresh VM build from -HEAD that was done this morning
shows the same issue.

root@test:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD test 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0
main-n253973-8f1543785f77: Sat Mar 26 02:40:01 EDT 2022
build@rstone-build:/usr/obj/srcpool/src/build/freebsd-build/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC
amd64
root@test:~ # realpath /usr/share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES
realpath: /usr/share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES: Too many
levels of symbolic links
root@test:~ # readlink /usr/share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES
../nn_NO.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES
root@test:~ # ls -l /usr/share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15
total 28
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  16464 Mar 26 02:40 LC_COLLATE
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     28 Mar 26 02:40 LC_CTYPE ->
../en_US.ISO8859-15/LC_CTYPE
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     31 Mar 26 02:40 LC_MESSAGES ->
../nn_NO.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     33 Mar 26 02:40 LC_MONETARY
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     29 Mar 26 02:40 LC_NUMERIC ->
../uk_UA.ISO8859-5/LC_NUMERIC
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    392 Mar 26 02:40 LC_TIME