Commit 4f959083 authored by Alasdair Nicol's avatar Alasdair Nicol Committed by Tim Graham
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[1.6.x] Fixed #21562 -- Warned against using the same app name as a django contrib app. 

Thanks yourcelf for the report.

Backport of 317fd13c from master
parent 656a3adf

docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt

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@@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ this. For a small app like polls, this process isn't too difficult. 
   This helps others looking for Django apps identify your app as Django

   specific.



       The application names (that is, the final dotted part of the

       path to the module containing ``models.py``) defined in

       :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` *must* be unique. Avoid using the

       same name as any of the Django :doc:`contrib packages

       </ref/contrib/index>`, for example ``auth``, ``admin`` or

       ``messages``.



2. Move the ``polls`` directory into the ``django-polls`` directory.



3. Create a file ``django-polls/README.rst`` with the following contents::