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obsolete: avoid infinite loop from obs-cycle in divergence (issue4126)

As for other currently in place cycle detection, arbitrarily cut the first
obsolescence link that create a cycle avoiding the infinite loop. This will have
to be made more deterministic in the future but we do not really care right now.

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