[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#934938: [cargo-docs] missing files

[Aaron Burdick]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:31:25 -0400 
=?UTF-8?Q?Mario_Gonz=C3=A1lez_Troncoso?= <gonzalemario at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Hey, I might be able to help build deb packages. Because I've been
 > learning rust for a few, this seems a good place to start contributing
 > to Debian.
 >
 > May I know what's the bug's latest status and where should I start first?
 > Thanks!
 >
 > --
 > https://www.linkedin.com/in/gonzalemario
 >
 >


Hello Mario,

I'm new like you and have no idea where to start. I too have some 
experience with rust and thought this would be a good way to contribute 
to Debian.

So far I've read this guide for Debian maintainers

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/

It seems like the Debian package is source-controlled here (I'm not 
sure, but I see Ximin Luo as a member of that group)

https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/cargo

I signed up for a Gitlab account, but it seems an administrator has to 
let you in.

It seems like what needs to be done in regards to this bug is described 
in some detail here

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969210#10

And one of the maintainers said "Patches welcome", but again, I'm not 
sure how to do that. I'm guessing by making a merge request?
https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/cargo/-/merge_requests

It's a really big stab in the dark, but maybe you can clone the repo and 
try and get a feel for what is being talked about and see if you can 
"fix it".

Sorry that's all I know. If anybody can confirm this, I wouldn't mind 
helping either.

Thanks,

Aaron