Add a success job to CI for branch protection

Author: tgross35

.github/workflows/rust.yml

@@ -49,3 +49,17 @@ jobs:
         rustup update --no-self-update
 
     - run: cargo build
+
+  success:
+    needs:
+      - test
+      - msrv
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # GitHub branch protection is exceedingly silly and treats "jobs skipped because a dependency
+    # failed" as success. So we have to do some contortions to ensure the job fails if any of its
+    # dependencies fails.
+    if: always() # make sure this is never "skipped"
+    steps:
+      # Manually check the status of all dependencies. `if: failure()` does not work.
+      - name: check if any dependency failed
+        run: jq --exit-status 'all(.result == "success")' <<< '${{ toJson(needs) }}'