Ack, that will teach me to grep for "symbolic link" as well as "symlink" in

the commit logs - I just found the reason for the self-pointing symlink, as
documented in revision 1.517 by phk, who committed the change over a year
ago.  Accordingly, put the feature back and drop all plans to MFC the previous
"fix".

release/Makefile

@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ release.9:
 ftp.1:
 	@echo "Setting up FTP distribution area"
 	@mkdir -p ${FD}
+	-@ln -s . ${FD}/${BUILDNAME}
 	@cd ${RD} && find floppies -print | cpio -dumpl ${FD}
 	@cd ${RD}/dists && find . -print | cpio -dumpl ${FD}
 	@for i in ${DIST_DOCS}; do \