dircolors "LINK target" bug?

[Chris Jones]

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Took another peek over the hot cider, and after removing the "LINK
target" statement from ~/.dircolors, I deleted the soft link to the
directory, and recreating it put a stop to these strange goings-on.

In other words, I a back to the situation that I described in my
initial post.

Since I was more interested in the opportunity to review ls capabilities
beyond the very basic than the OP's initial feature request, I don't
know if it's worth a formal bug report.

But I would be very curious to know how a change of options regarding
the formatting of the output of the ls command could have such effects
on the file system.

Thanks,

CJ