On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 10:12:21PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-numpy, python2-numpy): Update to 1.12.1.
> 
> LGTM ;-)
> 
> > [source]: Download the "real" release tarball instead of the snapshot.
> 
> NumPy provides a PGP signature with the zipball on PyPi:
> 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy

Good catch!

> Is there a reason to prefer the GitHub release tarball?

Not that I know of. I only chose this tarball because I saw it on the GitHub
page. I'll try switching to PyPi.