Problem reported by Yegor Timoshenko (Bug#26911),
and I ran into it myself recently in normal-top-level.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Name Expansion), etc/NEWS: Mention this.
* src/fileio.c (Fexpand_file_name): Expand "/a/b/." to "/a/b/" not
"/a/b", to avoid misinterpreting a symlink "/a/b". Similarly,
expand "/a/b/c/.." to "/a/b/" not "/a/b".
* test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el (tramp-test05-expand-file-name):
Adjust to match new behavior.
(tramp-test05-expand-file-name-relative): This test now succeeds,
at least on Fedora 31.
* test/src/fileio-tests.el:
(fileio-tests--expand-file-name-trailing-slash) New test.