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17656	collectstatic should not require a database	jcspray@…	nobody	"
The collectstatic command, like all management commands, gets a call to self.validate() which requires a database to be up and running.  This is annoying, because this command has no need for the database at all, and may well be run during packaging/deployment where a database may not be present.

Although hypothetically the STATICFILES_STORAGE setting could refer to something that stores static files in a database, the behaviour should be made more convenient for the default."	Bug	closed	contrib.staticfiles	dev	Normal	worksforme			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0