id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
33886	GeoIP module unnecessarily requires GDAL	Aarni Koskela	Aarni Koskela	"The commit https://github.com/django/django/commit/31bef51d8ea5e3bf650de1495ae1f0566670b8f3 (in versions 4.1a1 forward) moved the import of `django.contrib.gis.geos.Point` from the `def geos()` function to top-level, with the unfortunate side-effect that importing the `GeoIP` module now requires working GDAL libraries.

The GeoIP module should be usable without GDAL; naturally, returning a GDAL geometry would require GDAL.

My suggested fix would be to revert the above commit; a late import should be fine here."	Bug	closed	GIS	4.1	Release blocker	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0