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feat(publish): Stabilize multi-package publishing (#15636)
### What does this PR try to resolve?

A user will now be able to use flags like `--workspace` with `cargo
publish`.
`cargo package` will now also work with those flags without having to
pass `--no-verify --exclude-lockfile`.

Many release tools have come out that solve this problem. They will
still need a lot of the logic that went into that for other parts of the
release process.
However, a cargo-native solution allows for:
- Verification during dry-run
- Better strategies for waiting for the publish timeout

`cargo publish` is non-atomic at this time.
If there is a server side error, network error, or rate limit during the
publish, the workspace will be left in a partially published state.
Verification is done before any publishing so that won't affect things.
There are multiple strategies we can employ for improving this over
time, including
- atomic publish
- `--idempotent` (#13397)
- leave this to release tools to manage

This includes support for `--dry-run` verification. As release tools
didn't have a way to do this before, users may be surprised at how slow
this is because a `cargo build` is done instead of a `cargo check`. This
is being tracked in #14941.

This adds to `cargo package` the `--registry` and `--index` flags to
help with resolving dependencies when depending on a package being
packaged at that moment.
These flags are only needed when a `cargo package --workspace` operation
would have failed before due to inability to find a locally created
dependency.

Regarding the publish timeout, `cargo publish --workspace` publishes
packages in batches and we only timeout if nothing in the batch has
finished being published within the timeout, deferring the rest to the
next wait-for-publish. So for example, if you have packages `a`, `b`,
`c` then we'll wait up to 60 seconds and if only `a` and `b` were ready
in that time, we'll then wait another 60 seconds for `c`.

During testing, users ran into issues with `.crate` checksums:
- ~~#15647~~ Fixed for `cargo publish --dry-run` in #15711
  - But `cargo package` still has the problem
- #14396 (not been able to reproduce)
- #15622 (reproducible with consecutive `cargo publish` calls)

Fixes #1169
Fixes #10948

### How to test and review this PR?

By stabilizing this, Cargo's behavior becomes dependent on an overlay
registry.
When generating a lockfile or verifying a package, we overlay the
locally generated `.crate` files on top of the registry so the registry
appears as it would and everything works.
If there is a conflict with a version, the local version wins which is
important for the dry-run mode of release tools as they won't have
bumped the version yet.
Our concern for the overlay registry is dependency confusion attacks.
Considering this is not accessible for general user operations, this
should be fine.
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Cargo

Cargo downloads your Rust projects dependencies and compiles your project.

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