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26089	Remove auth's custom user test models (their tables aren't created since Django 1.8)	Simon Charette	Simon Charette	"Since the introduction of contrib application migrations in 1.8 (#22170) the [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/customizing/#custom-users-and-testing-fixtures documented custom user test models] table are not created anymore because they are registered to the `'auth'` labeled application but are not part of its shipped migrations.

Based on the fact this was not reported before and that the only uses of `ExtensionUser` I can find is [https://github.com/search?l=python&q=django+ExtensionUser&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93 either from a vendored version of Django or a copy-pasta of the documentation suggested usage] I think we can safely assume it's not commonly used among third-party application who claim to support custom user models. I'll make sure to post the mailing list in order to gather feedback from the community about this point.

Given the models are simply not usable on 1.8 and 1.9 now I'd like to start the deprecation in 1.8 in order order to be able to completely remove them on master but if it's not considered safe enough I came up with a with a workaround that could be backported since there's still no documented way to ship test only models (#7835).

If these models are relied on by the community I would suggest we start deprecating them in 1.10 and adjust the documentation to suggest subclassing the provided abstract models instead."	Bug	closed	contrib.auth	dev	Normal	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0