rustdoc links to private structs, causing 404s

[steveklabnik]

See http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.char.html#method.into_searcher as an example, CharEqPattern goes nowhere

[rprichard]

Another example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/struct.Formatter.html#method.align. The core::fmt::rt::v1::Alignment type is public in this case, but it's explicitly hidden.

[steveklabnik]

Yeah, there's a lot of these.

[tomjakubowski]

For CharEqPattern, it could be related to re-exported signatures. The same method in core doesn't have this issue: http://doc.rust-lang.org/core/primitive.char.html#method.into_searcher

Also, is it a bug that you can have private items in a public signature's QPath? Or private items in an impl for a public type? cc @alexcrichton @nikomatsakis

[tomjakubowski]

I wonder if rustdoc should be resolving qualified paths that it encounters.

[mitaa]

Is there still some unresolved issue here?

[QuietMisdreavus]

Still a thing; for example, Copy tries to link to types in rand, but the doc link is broken. (That link goes to 1.19.0, but it's still there in today's nightly docs.)

If i were to guess, it probably has to do with rustdoc seeing types that are in dependencies of std, but aren't being documented alongside it.

[GuillaumeGomez]

Wrote a fix for it. Will make the PR tomorrow or after tomorrow.