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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-05-02 21:27:11 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-05-04 20:45:18 -0400
commit2dc3280254ae06ca1fe664abf55749fe12a699d4 (patch)
treed331945d510ffdaed21dc67a99967f9586ac50b2 /docs
parent890537253cf235091816d27a5c2fb64943c8e34a (diff)
Fixed #28160 -- Prevented hiding GDAL exceptions when it's not installed.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt13
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.11.1.txt3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
index 44132384e8..8d6281539b 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
@@ -225,17 +225,8 @@ Troubleshooting
Can't find GDAL library
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-When GeoDjango can't find the GDAL library, the ``HAS_GDAL`` flag
-will be false:
-
-.. code-block:: pycon
-
- >>> from django.contrib.gis import gdal
- >>> gdal.HAS_GDAL
- False
-
-The solution is to properly configure your :ref:`libsettings` *or* set
-:ref:`gdallibrarypath` in your settings.
+When GeoDjango can't find the GDAL library, configure your :ref:`libsettings`
+*or* set :ref:`gdallibrarypath` in your settings.
.. _gdallibrarypath:
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt b/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt
index ba23d3e17e..e76ed491e9 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt
@@ -94,3 +94,6 @@ Bugfixes
* Fixed ``QuerySet.prefetch_related()`` crash when fetching relations in nested
``Prefetch`` objects (:ticket:`27554`).
+
+* Prevented hiding GDAL errors if it's not installed when using ``contrib.gis``
+ (:ticket:`28160`). (It's a required dependency as of Django 1.11.)