See discussion here: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21794
To summarise, when an abstract model class has no app_label, Django currently says: RemovedInDjango19Warning: Model class [model] doesn't declare an explicit app_label and either isn't in an application in INSTALLED_APPS or else was imported before its application was loaded. This will no longer be supported in Django 1.9. However, if I add app_label = None to the abstract model, Django thinks all inheriting models are in an app labelled None. I think the solution is simply to silence the warning. I'm happy to submit a pull request if the core devs agree. Cheers, Greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/54182828-43cc-449f-b2ba-4855ad347e58%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.