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25079	Warn if both TEMPLATES and TEMPLATE_DIRS are defined	Daniel Roseman	nobody	"Since the addition of the pluggable template backends, the `TEMPLATE_DIRS` setting has been deprecated in favour of the `TEMPLATES` list of dicts. If `TEMPLATES` is not defined, it will be constructed using the value of `TEMPLATE_DIRS`.

However, `TEMPLATES` is created automatically by the default project template; and in this case Django does not use the value in `TEMPLATE_DIRS`. This means that users following pre-1.8 tutorials (for example, the very popular Tango with Django) will be instructed to add `TEMPLATE_DIRS` to a settings file that ignores that value, and then will be surprised that their templates are not found. This has hit quite a few users on StackOverflow, for example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31108314/templatedoesnotexist-error-in-django/31109213
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30844500/django-templatedoesnotexist-error-on-windows-machine
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30740700/django-templatedoesnotexist-at-home-html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26176267/django-template-loader-cant-find-template/30588425#30588425

and so on.

Django should explicitly warn in this case, telling users to move their directories settings to `TEMPLATES`."	Cleanup/optimization	new	Template system	1.8	Normal				Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0