Deprecated spirit_user.User

The spirit_user.User is removed in Spirit v0.5. If you have AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'spirit_user.User' defined from way back in the day (Spirit v0.2), you must follow this guide before upgrading from v0.4 to v0.5.

Make sure you have a backup of your database and follow these steps:

• Do not upgrade to Spirit 0.5. You may do that later on. Make sure you are on latest v0.4.x
• Run python manage.py makemigrations, there should be no new migrations. If there are, are you upgrading Django? don't do that yet, you may do it later on.
• Create your own custom user app. It should contain a models.py file (see required user model below) and an empty migrations package.
• Add AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'my_custom_user.User' to settings.py.
• Add the custom app to INSTALLED_APPS, i.e: INSTALLED_APPS += ['my_custom_user'] (notice the plus sign/concat symbol)
• Run python manage.py makemigrations, there should be new migrations in the custom user app.
• Run python manage.py migrate --fake-initial my_custom_user where my_custom_user is the name of the custom user app.
• Run python manage.py migrate --fake spirit_user 0007_auto_20161114_1536 this will skip an exception that prevents data loss (it's there for those who are not following these steps here).
• Run python manage.py migrate --fake spirit_user 0008_auto_20161114_1707 this will skip the migration that removes the deprecated user model table.
• Follow the upgrade steps.

Required user model:

# my_custom_user/models.py

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser

class User(AbstractUser):

    class Meta(AbstractUser.Meta):
        swappable = 'AUTH_USER_MODEL'
        ordering = ['-date_joined', '-pk']
        verbose_name = _('user')
        verbose_name_plural = _('users')
        db_table = 'spirit_user_user'