Thanks for the report! I prepared a new version to fix this issue [0] and will double-check the section field in the future (though I am surprised that lintian did not catch that).
[0] https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/commit/bcda3d8c5b6efbd1b5b3f6ea0ffa3afea45dbc66
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