[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#999910: python3-django-hyperkitty: "Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type" errors caused by Django upgrade

[Colin Turner]

Package: python3-django-hyperkitty
Version: 1.3.4-4
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

Thank you for your work in maintaining hyperkitty.

Today brought an upgrade to python3-django [1], which caused a steady stream of cron errors:

System check identified some issues:

WARNINGS:
account.EmailAddress: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the AccountConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
account.EmailConfirmation: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the AccountConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
django_mailman3.MailDomain: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the DjangoMailman3Config.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
django_mailman3.Profile: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the DjangoMailman3Config.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
django_q.OrmQ: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the DjangoQConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
django_q.Schedule: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the DjangoQConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Attachment: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Email: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Favorite: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.LastView: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.MailingList: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Profile: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Tag: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Tagging: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Thread: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.ThreadCategory: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
hyperkitty.Vote: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the HyperKittyConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
postorius.EmailTemplate: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the PostoriusConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
socialaccount.OpenIDNonce: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the SocialAccountConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
socialaccount.OpenIDStore: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the SocialAccountConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
socialaccount.SocialAccount: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the SocialAccountConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
socialaccount.SocialApp: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the SocialAccountConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.
socialaccount.SocialToken: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the SocialAccountConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.

Rather than wishing to make changes to the settings.py (actually /etc/mailman3/mailman-web.py) that might cause problems for upstream versions and their migrations, I added the following to /etc/mailman3/mailman-web.py to suppress the warnings in the short term, which appears to have been successful.

# Attempt to silence warnings about primary key fields arising from Django 3.2
SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS=["models.W042"] 

I assume this will be, and maybe has been fixed upstream, but such a change may be useful to others in the meantime.

Many thanks indeed,

CT.



[1] dpkg.log extract: upgrade python3-django:all 2:2.2.24-1 2:3.2.9-2


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages python3-django-hyperkitty depends on:
ii  fonts-glyphicons-halflings   1.009~3.4.1+dfsg-2
ii  libjs-bootstrap4             4.5.2+dfsg1-8
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc              4.2.0-5
ii  python3                      3.9.7-1
ii  python3-dateutil             2.8.1-6
ii  python3-django               2:3.2.9-2
ii  python3-django-compressor    2.4-2
ii  python3-django-extensions    3.1.5-1
ii  python3-django-gravatar2     1.4.4-2
ii  python3-django-haystack      3.1.1-1
ii  python3-django-mailman3      1.3.5-2
ii  python3-django-q             1.2.1-1
ii  python3-djangorestframework  3.12.4-1
ii  python3-elasticsearch        7.1.0-5
ii  python3-flufl.lock           5.0.1-1
ii  python3-mailmanclient        3.3.3-1
ii  python3-networkx             2.5+ds-2
ii  python3-robot-detection      0.4.0-2
ii  python3-tz                   2021.3-1

Versions of packages python3-django-hyperkitty recommends:
ii  mailman3-web  0+20200530-2

python3-django-hyperkitty suggests no packages.

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