Fix the recursive group membership check #4088
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Allow a group to be a member of its direct parent and also its parent's ancestors without raising an error.
So this scenario is now allowed:
Looping membership is still detected and prevented as before, thus Stack Overflow is still avoided.
So this scenario is still not allowed, as it was originally intended:
and also not allowed:
Hopefully the new error message is also easier to understand, although it will only be issued when a real membership loop occurred.
See https://community.openhab.org/t/recursive-group-membership-found/135192
#3748