recent actions list in the auto admin contains broken links to deleted objects.

[real.human@…]

if you create an object and then delete it in the auto admin, the recent history pane shows an entry for the creation and deletion of the object. the entry for creation is still linked to the edit object page, which return a 404 now that the object no longer exists. should the link be removed, and a "(deleted") comment, or icon, or strike-through decoration be applied to convey this to the user?

[Adrian Holovaty]

Good call. The implementation might be tricky, though. At which point do we invalidate those links?

[Adrian Holovaty]

Here are a couple of ways this could be solved, neither of which is a great solution:

• Each time delete() is called, on any model object, Django could delete any related rows in the admin log (which is what produces the "Recent Actions" list). This is bad, because it's unnecessary overhead for an edge case.

• We could periodically check each entry in the admin log and see whether the object has been deleted. This is bad, because there's no place to hook that in.

With this said, I don't think this is worth fixing.

[anonymous]

Patch for ticket 12232/1611 against 1.4.2. Adds a new field to LogEntry so you need to migrate (south should take care of it)