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17857	CachedFilesMixin url_converter creates unnecessarily absolute urls	tgecho	nobody	"The url converter outputs absolute urls, even if they were originally defined as relative. If I do a collectstatic while DEBUG=True, it uses my local dev STATIC_URL.

So url(""../img/shadow.png"") becomes url(""/static/img/shadow.96b0bd7b6268.png"")

Only my production STATIC_URL is 'http://mystatic.s3.amazonaws.com/' so this link is broken when DEBUG=False

That's just a symptom of the problem that the url converter bakes in whatever STATIC_URL is in effect when collectstatic is run. If the final result was a relative path, then it would work wherever the static files ended up living. So ideally url(""../img/shadow.png"") becomes url("".../img/shadow.96b0bd7b6268.png""). This file would be portable no matter what the STATIC_URL is set to."	Bug	closed	contrib.staticfiles	dev	Normal	fixed		kmike84@…	Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0