Question: When upgrading to Django 1.8 (with zc.buildout) and running syncdb or migrate, I get this message:

`django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "auth_user" does not exist`

One of my models contains django.contrib.auth.models.User:

```
user = models.ForeignKey(
    User, related_name='%(app_label)s_%(class)s_user',
    blank=True, null=True, editable=False
)

```

Downgrading to Django 1.7 removes the error. Do I have to include the User object differently in Django 1.8?

Answer: 
I fix this by running auth first, then the rest of my migrations:

```
python manage.py migrate auth
python manage.py migrate

```
On my environment, I fix this running `makemigrations` on all apps that have relationship with `django.contrib.auth.models`:

```

manage.py makemigrations app_with_user_relation
manage.py migrate

```