bug#27538: ln -s creating broken sym link?

[Jonny Grant]

Hello

Managed to create a broken link, but didn't get any warning.
Example below - am I miss-understanding something?
$ mkdir mydir

$ ln -s sym mydir

$ cd mydir

$ ls -l

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 jonny jonny 3 Jun 27 11:02 sym -> sym

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Regards, Jonny