ci: auto-publish Rust crates to crates.io on release#272
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Add `publish_crates` job to build-runtime workflow that publishes boxlite and its dependency crates to crates.io after runtime tarballs are uploaded to the GitHub Release. - Publish leaf crates first (boxlite-shared, *-sys), wait 60s for crates.io indexing, then publish boxlite - Use BOXLITE_DEPS_STUB=1 to skip native builds during verification - boxlite uses --no-verify (shim binary links libkrun, unavailable in stub mode; real build already succeeded) - Handle "already uploaded" gracefully for idempotent re-runs - Add publish=false to boxlite-ffi (path-only dep would fail publish) - Document CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN secret in workflows README
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Summary
publish_cratesjob tobuild-runtime.ymlthat publishes Rust crates to crates.io after runtime tarballs are uploaded to GitHub Releasepublish = falsetoboxlite-ffi(path-only dep would fail publish)CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKENsecret in workflows READMEPre-requisite
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CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKENsecret in repo settings (generate at https://crates.io/settings/tokens with publish-new + publish-update scopes).Test plan
actionlintpasses on workflow YAMLBOXLITE_DEPS_STUB=1 cargo publish --dry-runpasses for all 6 cratescargo package --listconfirms vendor dirs excluded, proto files included