Development + missing migrations

[hovi]

I have django project has quite sophisticated build pipeline with many checks in place (lints, code formatting, unit tests). One of them is checking for any apps that are in a state with missing migrations, the actual management command is this:

python manage.py makemigrations --check --dry-run

My job fails, because there are apparently migrations to be added:

Migrations for 'hitcount':
  .virtualenvs/ve/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hitcount/migrations/0005_alter_blacklistip_id_alter_blacklistuseragent_id_and_more.py
    - Alter field id on blacklistip
    - Alter field id on blacklistuseragent
    - Alter field id on hit
    - Alter field content_type on hitcount
    - Alter field id on hitcount

Not sure if it's because someone forgot them or if it's related to newer version of django. Either way this should be explored and migrations added.

That leads me to another point and that is - I haven't found simple way, how to setup development for hitcount. I haven't found a way to run makemigrations for hitcount without some hacks to module search path. Is there a document on how to actually develop things?