diff --git a/param-1.7.0.tar.gz b/param-1.7.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 2296d7e..0000000
--- a/param-1.7.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:02307e39323ec7c01aa8874e6512e67e441037a1527196fe4f1c4b00f931cae7
-size 56535
diff --git a/python-param.changes b/python-param.changes
index f1714d8..366119e 100644
--- a/python-param.changes
+++ b/python-param.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 17 08:51:50 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Switch to github tarball and enable tests.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul 16 16:11:19 UTC 2018 - arun@gmx.de
 
diff --git a/python-param.spec b/python-param.spec
index 32cf09c..686a073 100644
--- a/python-param.spec
+++ b/python-param.spec
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ Summary:        Declarative Python programming using Parameters
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            http://ioam.github.com/param/
-Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/p/param/param-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:        https://github.com/ioam/param/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module nose}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module numpy}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ as part of other projects.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n param-%{version}
+sed -i -e 's:version=get_setup_version("param"):version="%{version}":g' setup.py
 
 %build
 %python_build
@@ -53,6 +56,9 @@ as part of other projects.
 %python_install
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
+%check
+%python_expand nosetests-%{$python_bin_suffix}
+
 %files %{python_files}
 %license LICENSE.txt
 %doc README.rst
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