There are several reasons why graphite-web does not work with Django 1.10 (the current version in sid). One of them is that it uses the "patterns" variable:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/graphite-manage", line 15, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 367, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 359, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 294, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 342, in execute self.check() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 374, in check include_deployment_checks=include_deployment_checks, File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 62, in _run_checks issues.extend(super(Command, self)._run_checks(**kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 361, in _run_checks return checks.run_checks(**kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/checks/registry.py", line 81, in run_checks new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 14, in check_url_config return check_resolver(resolver) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 24, in check_resolver for pattern in resolver.url_patterns: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 35, in __get__ res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/urls/resolvers.py", line 313, in url_patterns patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 35, in __get__ res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/urls/resolvers.py", line 306, in urlconf_module return import_module(self.urlconf_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module __import__(name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graphite/urls.py", line 29, in <module> urlpatterns = patterns('', NameError: name 'patterns' is not defined Which has been removed from Django in 1.9: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/urls/#patterns