rustdoc::clean is missing glob re-exports

[lolbinarycat]

Location

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustdoc/clean/index.html

Summary

items like clean::Item should show up here, but they do not, they only show up at their original definition site, clean::types::Item.

possibly related: #53724

[fmease]

I think this is intentional given the fact that the types "re-export" (well, import) is only crate-public, not public. It's pub(crate) use self::types::*; in clean/mod.rs.

Indeed, rustc, rustdoc etc get documented with --document-private-items. However, we never render non-public uses¹. A case could be made that we should inspect the visibility more closely but eh, dunno (and it wouldn't work for root modules / crate roots as there, the following holds: pub(crate) use == pub(self) use == use).

Footnotes

1. Edit: I guess there are cases where we do ^^, e.g. with #[doc(no_inline)], maybe ↩