make index failing again

From: Andy Farkas <andyf_at_andyit.com.au>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:27:19 UTC
So I've discussed this issue before but now something different
is annoyingly stopping me from completing a 'make index' in my
ports tree...

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root:/usr/ports # date
Tue Jun 21 16:51:59 AEST 2022
root:/usr/ports # rm -rf * .git* .arc* .hook*
root:/usr/ports # ls -CaF
./      ../
root:/usr/ports # cat /etc/make.conf
DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=perl5=5.32
DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes
WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/ports/work
root:/usr/ports #
root:/usr/ports # git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git .
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 183876, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (183876/183876), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (172235/172235), done.
remote: Total 183876 (delta 10041), reused 125036 (delta 7073), 
pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (183876/183876), 77.80 MiB | 503.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (10041/10041), done.
Updating files: 100% (146798/146798), done.
root:/usr/ports #
root:/usr/ports # make index
Generating INDEX-13 - please wait..--- describe.accessibility ---
--- describe.arabic ---
--- describe.archivers ---
...
--- describe.x11-toolkits ---
--- describe.x11-wm ---
make_index: Circular dependency loop found: pulseaudio-14.2_4 depends 
upon itself.

  Done.
root:/usr/ports #
root:/usr/ports # uname -a
FreeBSD mater.andyit.com.au 13.1-STABLE FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE #0 
stable/13-0ee295149: Mon Jun 20 10:38:43 AEST 2022 
root@mater.andyit.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
root:/usr/ports #
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Why me?  Why is nobody else seeing this?  What have I done to bring
the wrath of the all-powerful mighty Red Daemon of the Internet down
upon my weary soul?

-andyf