CI: add a success conclusion job

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -128,3 +128,18 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         rustup set profile minimal && rustup default "nightly-$(curl -s https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup-components-history/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/clippy)" && rustup component add clippy
     - run: cargo clippy -- -D clippy::all
+
+  success:
+    needs:
+      - test
+      - rustfmt
+      - clippy
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # GitHub branch protection is exceedingly silly and treats "jobs skipped because a dependency
+    # failed" as success. So we have to do some contortions to ensure the job fails if any of its
+    # dependencies fails.
+    if: always() # make sure this is never "skipped"
+    steps:
+      # Manually check the status of all dependencies. `if: failure()` does not work.
+      - name: check if any dependency failed
+        run: jq --exit-status 'all(.result == "success")' <<< '${{ toJson(needs) }}'