Dropping the dependency on the Iosevka Term font from reform-tools

In August 2024, Iosevka Term got replaced with JetBrains Mono Regular as a dependency of reform-tools.

This is a follow up for:

Specifically, I was just re-evaluating this:

As it turns out, reform-tools shipped with this dependency for over a year:

fonts-reform-iosevka-term (= 2.3.0-1)

But the version of fonts-reform-iosevka-term in the MNT repo is 2.3.0.1:

Since nobody seems to have spotted this for over a year, this is an indication for me that nobody seems to care about this broken dependency.

I only spotted it now when I tried to create a system image for Debian testing which doesn’t work because fonts-reform-iosevka-term is provided in the wrong version by the MNT repository and the alternative fonts-iosevka-term from Debian got removed from testing due to this RC bug:

I could fix the typo in the version in reform-tools but I already dumped too much time into iosevka. See commits like this to convince yourself:

I think it is time to pull the plug and spend my freetime elsewhere.

If you still need iosevka, please shout.

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Absolutely pull the plug!

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